Electricity and Magnetism

xxxii, 976pp, 19 plates (frontispiece absent), 584 figures etc. Original blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles front and spine. Thick 4to. . Cloth heavily worn, rubbed at edges, rounded on corners and cracked and fraying at spine ends, marked, stains and creases on spine, joints partially cracked. Front free endpaper and frontispiece absent. Hinges cracked. Some mild toning and spotting to preliminary and last pages. Faint and occasional spotting throughout, else text generally clean and neat with the odd corner crease. Text block tight, boards loosening. A remarkable and formidable work reflecting the state of knowledge regarding electricity and magnetism at the end of the 19th century; Guillemin’s work was the standard reference on the topic in France; this edition, edited and translated into English by Silvanus P Thompson, has the chapters on Dynamo-electric machines and on the Telephone updated by the editor, else is largely true to the original. In fair condition only. hard to