Electricity.- Priestley (Joseph) Histoire de l'Électricité, 3 vol., first French edition, Paris, Herissant, 1771; and another, electricity (4)

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Electricity.- Priestley (Joseph) Histoire de l' lectricité, 3 vol., 9 engraved folding plates, occasional light browning, ink-stamps and ink ownership inscriptions to half-titles or titles, contemporary blue boards, red morocco label to spine, paper label to vol.2 upper cover, rubbed, slight wear, [Wellcome IV, p.435; Wheeler Gift 453b; Crook S/506], Paris, Herissant, 1771 Haüy (René Just, L'Abbé) Exposition Raisonnée de l' lectricité et du Magnétisme, 4 engraved folding plates, ink ownership inscription to title, occasional water-staining, original wrappers, rebacked with printed label, covers laid down, edges uncut, [Wheeler Gift 541; Sinkankas 2808], Paris, 1787, first or first French editions, occasional light spotting, 8vo (4) *** The first mentioned is the first extensive history of electrical discovery and theory.

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