Lot 217

Electricity.- Volta (Alessandro) L'Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico..., first edition, Pavia, G. Giovanni Capelli, 1814.

Estimate: £1,200 - 1,800

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Electricity.- Volta (Alessandro) L'Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico..., first edition, engraved portrait of Volta by Garavaglia, without the addenda slip tipped to final f. in some copies, some light marginal staining or surface soiling to preliminaries and final few ff., occasional light damp-staining to upper-margin, uncut in original blue wrappers, some light toning and soiling, some wear to extremities, lower wrapper working loose at head, 4to, Pavia, G. Giovanni Capelli, 1814.

⁂ Volta's last memoir on galvanism, his most important contribution to the famous controversy between Galvanic and Voltaic theories of electricity. At the end is a 7pp. catalogue of Volta's works up to 1813.

Description

Electricity.- Volta (Alessandro) L'Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico..., first edition, engraved portrait of Volta by Garavaglia, without the addenda slip tipped to final f. in some copies, some light marginal staining or surface soiling to preliminaries and final few ff., occasional light damp-staining to upper-margin, uncut in original blue wrappers, some light toning and soiling, some wear to extremities, lower wrapper working loose at head, 4to, Pavia, G. Giovanni Capelli, 1814.

⁂ Volta's last memoir on galvanism, his most important contribution to the famous controversy between Galvanic and Voltaic theories of electricity. At the end is a 7pp. catalogue of Volta's works up to 1813.

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