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BELLOC (Alexis). La Télégraphie historique depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. Illustrated with 76 engravings. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1888. In-4 red half-chagrin, richly decorated spine, gilt title, gilt tr. (publisher's binding). Copy with several documents: a L.A.S. from Claude CHAPPE (1763-1805), inventor of the eponymous telegraph, dated 2 ventôse year 10 (21 February 1802), inviting the citizen Delépinière to visit the telegraph of the Louvre, with a (modern) reproduction of the optical telegraph on the Louvre pasted on the back of the address, a modern reproduction of the engraved and watercoloured view of the telegraph at Ecouen, a modern reproduction of the engraved and watercoloured view of the Montmartre telegraph, 3 modern photographs of the restored telegraph of the Col de Saverne. Also included: BOULANGER (J.) & FERRIÉ (G.). La Télégraphie sans fil et les ondes électriques. Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1907. In-8 plum-coloured bradel cardboard, title page on the spine (period binding). Copy with a modern notice (by J. P. Legrand) on the works of General Ferrié (1868-1932), 4 ff. bound at the beginning and 3 modern photographs (Ducretet receivers and Branly's co-receiver) pasted on the first and last endpapers. A good copy enriched with an E.A.S. from both authors to Henri BECQUEREL (1852-1908) who discovered radioactivity in 1896, winner of half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie).
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BELLOC (Alexis). La Télégraphie historique depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. Illustrated with 76 engravings. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1888. In-4 red half-chagrin, richly decorated spine, gilt title, gilt tr. (publisher's binding). Copy with several documents: a L.A.S. from Claude CHAPPE (1763-1805), inventor of the eponymous telegraph, dated 2 ventôse year 10 (21 February 1802), inviting the citizen Delépinière to visit the telegraph of the Louvre, with a (modern) reproduction of the optical telegraph on the Louvre pasted on the back of the address, a modern reproduction of the engraved and watercoloured view of the telegraph at Ecouen, a modern reproduction of the engraved and watercoloured view of the Montmartre telegraph, 3 modern photographs of the restored telegraph of the Col de Saverne. Also included: BOULANGER (J.) & FERRIÉ (G.). La Télégraphie sans fil et les ondes électriques. Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1907. In-8 plum-coloured bradel cardboard, title page on the spine (period binding). Copy with a modern notice (by J. P. Legrand) on the works of General Ferrié (1868-1932), 4 ff. bound at the beginning and 3 modern photographs (Ducretet receivers and Branly's co-receiver) pasted on the first and last endpapers. A good copy enriched with an E.A.S. from both authors to Henri BECQUEREL (1852-1908) who discovered radioactivity in 1896, winner of half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie).
