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FARADAY, MICHAEL. Experimental Researches in Electricity

FIRST EDITION of Michael Faraday's most famous and influential paper, reporting the first production of electricity by electromagnetic induction. IN ORIGINAL UNBOUND STATE WITH ORIGINAL BELLY BAND.
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FARADAY, MICHAEL. On a Peculiar Class of Acoustical Figures; and on certain Forms assumed by groups of particles upon vibrating elastic Surfaces

PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, of one of Faraday's important works documenting his quest to understand the nature of electricity. Presentation inscription ("Le Chevalier Avogadro... from the author") on title-page in Faraday’s hand to Count Amadeo Avogadro, Italian physicist and chemist (inscription cropped at fore-margin due to the work being previously bound as part of a pamphlet volume).
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