FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle. [etc.]

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867).  A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: to which is Added a Lecture on Platinum. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1861. 8vo (165 x 108mm). Half title, wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Original cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, some staining to endpapers). Provenance: Pope Valley School District, Public School Library, State of California (label, and stamps). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. cf. Howe and Holtz’s Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum Group (Washington, 1919), p. 112 (citing Faraday's separately published lecture on platinum). With the same author's Histoire d' une Chandelle (Paris, [n.d.], original cloth, third French edition). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (2)