FARADAY MICHAEL: (1791-1867) FARADAY MICHAEL: (1791-1867) English physicist and …

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FARADAY MICHAEL: (1791-1867)

FARADAY MICHAEL: (1791-1867) English physicist and chemist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. A good A.L.S., M Faraday, one page, 8vo, Royal Institution (London), 1st March 1844, to Hugh Welch Diamond. Faraday confesses that his correspondent´s note has placed him in ´a complication of difficulties out of which I hardly know to extricate myself´ and explaining that ´this arises out of a resolution which I do not remember having yet broken, namely never to write an autograph to be given or kept as an autograph´, further remarking ´You will wonder why I made such a rule & will perhaps hardly believe me when I say I can attribute it to nothing but a sort of modesty which still clings by me´, although finally conceding to Diamond´s request, ´I cannot refuse to lay it down for a moment on the present occasion both that I may write my name & accept your box for which I return you my many thanks´. An eloquent letter on the subject of autographs. Lightly tipped to the lower left edge to a portion of a page removed from Diamond`s album, and a small strip of the upper left edge of the letter neatly excised, not affecting the text, G Hugh Welch Diamond (1809-1886) British psychiatrist and photographer.

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FARADAY MICHAEL: (1791-1867)

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Estim. 3 000 - 5 000 EUR

[Autographs]. [Savants, sciences]. Important collection of signed letters, documents and papers, almost all autographed. XVIIe-XIX centuries, by forty-six scientists (moderate usage defects, the most serious are noted). This collection was mainly built up by Antoine Boutron (1796-1879), pharmacist and chemist, and autograph collector. It contains notes written by Boutron himself, as well as letters he received from colleagues and friends, and others he collected. There are also items addressed to or collected by his son-in-law Edmond (Edme, dit) Frémy (1814-1894); Frémy was also an eminent chemist: as professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, he succeeded Théophile-Jules Pelouze, who at the start of his career had received the support of Antoine Boutron. He was a member of the Académie des Sciences and Director of the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle. - ARAGO, François (1786-1853). Astronomer and physicist. 1 autograph draft in which he praises Lakanal. 1 p. and 2 lines in-folio + 1 autograph envelope addressed to Boutron + 1 printed notice + 1 lithograph portrait (freckles) ? - ADANSON, Michel (1727-1806). French naturalist of Scottish origin. 1 L.A.S. to Bélanger (v°: "à l'ami bienfaisant, au philosophe"). Paris, Feb. 4, 1796. 3 p. in-4. Interesting letter on his work, particularly on unknown species; at the end, he complains of his destitution. - AYEN, J.-L.-P.-F. de Noailles, Duc d' (1739-1824). Military and chemist, member of the Acad. des Sciences. 1 fragment of a handwritten bill signed "Le Duc d'Ayen" + 1 presumably autograph text to the Comte d'Angiviller concerning a memoir on a water pipe, ½ p. small in-4, March 31, 1780. - BAUDELOCQUE, Jean Louis (1746-1810). Obstetrician. 1 L.A.S. to Fougeron, pharmacy student. Paris, Nov. 21, 1806. 1 p. in-8 about the support he intends to provide. - BECQUEREL, [probably Antoine (1788-1878). Physicist]. 4 L.A.S. [to Edmond Frémy]. S.l., s.d. 5 p. in-8. - BERGMAN, Torbern Olof (1735-1784). Swedish chemist and mineralogist. 1 L.A.S., to Jean Le Roy, of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. Upsala, Oct. 18, 1763. 3 folio pages in Latin. - BIOT, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862). Physicist and astronomer. Manuscript signed and most probably autograph, concerning Volta. Version with numerous corrections. Circa 1801. 10 pages in-4. Biot presented a report on Volta's experiments to the Académie des Sciences on Frimaire 11, Year X (Dec. 2, 1801). - BOULLIAU, Ismaël (1605-1694). Astronomer. Manuscript copy of a Latin dedication (perhaps autograph draft?). 1 p. ¾ in-4 + 1 engraved portrait dated 1697. - BOYER, Alexis (1757-1833). Anatomist, first surgeon to Napoleon 1st, then consultant to Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis-Philippe. 1 A.S. certificate + 1 A.S. prescription + 1 lith. portrait after J. Boilly. - BRONGNIART, Alexandre (1770-1847). Mineralogist. 1 L.A.S, to Mr. Webb, January 7, 1839. 2 p. in-12 (light wetness, one corner mq. in margin). About rock samples, Berthellot and a post in Toulouse, and thanks his addressee for his fine work. - CAILLAUD Frédéric (1787-1869). French explorer of Upper Egypt and Ethiopia. 1 L.A.S. addressed to the booksellers Treuttel et Würtz. Paris, July 8, 1826. 1 p. in-4, about the publication of a book. - CHASLES, Michel (1793-1880). Mathematician. 4 L.A.S. [to Edmond Frémy]. Two from 1859 (?), one from 1872 and one undated. 4 p. in-8. - CUVIER, Georges (1769-1832). Naturalist. Autograph bill signed, to a police commissioner. Au jardin du roi, September 3, 1824. ½ page in-4. Request for certificates to obtain a passport for Mme Cuvier and her daughters to go to the waters of Plombières (a ballpoint pen stroke not serious, freckles). + 1 lithograph portrait. - DAUBRÉE, Gabriel-Auguste (1814-1896). Geologist. 1 L.A.S, to "mon cher confrère" [i.e. Frémy]. December 19. "Enclosed are samples of manganese ore from [Romorantin?] with the quartz and spathfluor that serve as its gangue...". 1 p. ½ in-8. - DEMACHY, Jacques-François (1728-1803). Chemist. 1 autograph piece (end missing) about experiments on saltpeter and alkali. 2 p. folio. - DEPRETZ, César-Mansuète (1792?-1863). French physicist of Belgian origin. 6 L.A.S. [to Edmond Frémy]. 1859-1861. 5 p. ½ in-8. - DU HAMEL, Jean-Baptiste (1624-1706). Member of the Académie des Sciences. Programme des matières à traiter à l'Académie des sciences, manuscript (secretary), 2 pieces in-4 of 2 p. and 2 p. ½, the second devoted to physics enriched with a signed autograph paragraph + 1 small notebook of autograph notes on sessions, 6 p. in-8. - ERMAN, Georg Adolphe (1806-1877). German physicist. Handwritten copy (translation?) of one of his memoirs, published in Berlin, on conduction.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

A BRASS SERPENTINE FENDER IN GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with pierced decoration with a central lyre, scrolling leaves and birds 22.4cm high, 133.5cm wide, 32.2cm deep Provenance Bought from Michael Brett English Antique Furniture, Porcelain and Plate, Picton House, Broadway, Worcs. on 18th February 1960.

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

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