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1840 - Priestley, J.
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Priestley, J. Histoire de l'électricité, translated from the English..., with critical notes. Complete set of 3 volumes. Paris 1771. 3 vols. XLVI, 432 p.; 530 p.; 474 p. With 9 engraved folding plates. Original half-leather binding, some slight foxing and browning. 1st French edition, Ekelof no. 155: “In 1765, Priestley was encouraged by Benjamin Franklin in his plan to write a history of electricity.... In 1767, when he was 34 years old, he published the first edition of *The History and Present State of Electricity with Original Experiments*. The purpose of the experiments, both old and new, was to verify the reported facts.” The plates depict all kinds of electrical apparatus and experiments. – 36.
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