EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY. Offprint from the Philosophical Transactions, TWENTY-THIRD SERIES.

London, from the Philosophical Transactions, printed by Richard & John Taylor, 1850.. TITLE CONTINUED: On the polar or other condition of diamagnetic bodies. Part 1, for 1850. PRESENTATION TO TOP OF TITLE PAGE : "REV. DR. ROBINSON (?) FROM THE AUTHOR". 4to, approximately 300 x 230 mm, 11¾ x 9 inches, pages: text illustration as frontispiece, title page, 171-187, [1 - blank], some pages uncut, bound in pale grey wrappers. Wrappers dusty, spine worn with slight loss of paper, pencil and old ink notes to top cover, faint vertical crease to covers and text, edges of covers showing slight wear and handling, otherwise a very good copy. See: Hook & Norman, The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, Volume 1, page 279, No. 760. "Virtually all of Faraday's contributions to electricity and magnetism were published in this series of papers in Philosophical Transactions. Faraday presented individual offprints from the series, as well as various collections of offprints, before the publication of the papers in book form"; Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume iv, pages 527-540. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.