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Author: Curie, Pierre
Title: Œuvres
Place: Paris
Publisher: Gauthier-Villars
Date: 1908
Item # : 128410
Sale Number   257
Lot Number   19
Sale Name    
Fine & Rare Books
Sale Date   02/10/2003
Price realized   $ 402
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Description:
xxii, 621, [1]. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, text diagrams, 2 plates. 10x6½, original printed wrappers, glassine dust jacket. First Edition.
The collected works of Pierre Curie, who shared the 1903 Physics Nobel Prize for his researches with his wife on radiation. Photographs of their laboratory are reproduced on the plates. With a 4-page publisher's advertisement laid in.
Condition:
Untrimmed and mostly unopened. Minor darkening to wrappers; short tears to glassine, otherwise in near fine, original condition.
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