PRECIS HISTORIQUE Et EXPERIMENTAL Des PHENOMENES ELECTRIQUES, Depuis L'Origine de Cette Decouverte Jusqu'a ce Jour

by Sigaud de la Fond, Joseph-Aignan. 1730 - 1810

$1,250 · Offered by Tavistock Books

First edition

Paris: 1781. 1st edition (Ronalds Catalogue, p. 475). Mottelay records the publication of this work in 1785 (the implication being it's the title's first publication, though 1785 is the year of the 2nd edition). xvi, 742, [2] pp. Printed glosses. Illustrated with 9 folding copperplate engravings, depicting the divers pieces..... More

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