GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) & Wilhelm Eduard WEBER (1804-91). Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des magnetischen Vereins im Jahre 1836, Göttingen, 1837, [?Volume One only (of 6)], 8vo, 10 folding engraved plates, boards, modern box. FIRST EDITION.

GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) & Wilhelm Eduard WEBER (1804-91).  Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des magnetischen Vereins im Jahre 1836. Göttingen: im Verlage der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1837. [?Volume One only (of 6)], 8vo (220 x 137mm). Tables, 10 folding engraved plates (title torn without loss of letters at lower margin and repaired on verso, variable spotting, staining and browning throughout, one plate browned). Original or contemporary paper boards, original blue printed label on spine, partly overlaid by old manuscript label, partly unopened, uncut (lightly rubbed, bumped), modern green cloth book box. Provenance: From the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this pioneering work on terrestrial magnetism, whose discoveries led to the construction of the first electric telegraph line. "Gauss and Weber organized the Magnetische Verein, which united a worldwide network of observatories. Its Resultate appeared in six volumes (1836 [?but 1837]-1841) [only the first present here] and included fifteen papers by Gauss [and] twenty-three by Weber ..." (DSB). Dibner Heralds p.33; cf. Norman 833: "Gauss and Weber united a worldwide network of magnetic observatories and established an important precedent for international scientific cooperation"; cf. Poggendorff I, 854; Ronalds Catalogue of Books and Papers Relating to Electricity, Magnetism, etc. p.195.