BECQUEREL, Henry Antoine (1852-1908). Recherches sur une Propriete Nouvelle de la Matiere. Activite Radiante Spontanee ou Radioactivite de la Matiere.

BECQUEREL, Henri Antoine (1852-1908).  Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière. Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière. [Comprising the whole volume of:  Mémoires de l' Académie des Sciences de l' Institut de France. Tome Quarante-Sixième]. Paris: Typographie de Firmin-Didot, 1903. 4to (285 x 230mm). Half title, 13 monochrome photographed plates, diagrams and tables, errata leaf. Original pale green printed wrappers (backstrip a little faded, some minor chipping). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of the author's definitive work on radioactivity. Dibner Heralds 163; Norman 158; PMM 393: "[In 1903] he also published the above massive volume [i.e. Recherches ...] of some three hundred and sixty pages ... which is his definitive work, containing a chronological narrative of his investigations, his mature conclusions and a bibliography of two hundred and fourteen treatises on radio-activity, dating from his own first paper in 1896."