Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £600 |
TELEGRAPHS - Carl August von STEINHEIL (1801-70). Ueber Telegraphie, insbesondere durch galvanische Kräfte. Eine öffentliche Vorlesung gehalten in der festlichen Sitzung der Königl. Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 25. August 1838. Munich: Gedruckt bei Dr. Carl Wolf, [?1838]. 4to (273 x 215mm). 2 engraved plates, one of which folding (some ink spotting to title, some spotting, staining and browning throughout, although the plates generally clean). Contemporary wrappers (frayed, stained). Provenance: illegible early inscription on upper wrapper. FIRST EDITION. With 5 other works of related interest in 6 vols., namely Joseph Forsach’s Handbuch der electrischen, galvanischen, magnetischen und electromagnetische Telegraphie (Vienna, 1854, 45 lithographed plates, original printed yellow wrappers), H. Schellen’s Der elektromagnetische Telegraph (Braunshweig, 1854, folding plate, original yellow printed wrappers), Leander Ditscheiner's Die Telegraphen-Apparate (Vienna, 1874, 6 folding plates, wrappers), A. - L. Ternant's Les Télégraphes ... Deuzième Edition (Paris, 1884, 2 vols., original pictorial cloth gilt) and Eug. van Mullem's Manuel de Télégraphie Electrique (Gand, 1877, 5 folding plates, contemporary half straight-grained morocco). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. The lot sold not subject to return. (7)