Traite de Radioactivite Treatise on Radioactivity

by Madame P. Curie, Marie Sklodowska Curie

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First edition

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1910. First edition, first printing. 426; 548 pp with frontispiece portrait of Pierre Curie, seven plates, and many in-text diagrams. Two volumes, in late 20th century quarter leather bindings stamped in gilt. Text in French. Very Good with bindings worn, former female ownership to front blanks. Faint staining to top textblock edge of Volume II. The groundbreaking treatise on radioactivity by

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