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Auction archive: Lot number 923

BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908). Bound volume of Comptes rendus des sances de l'Acadmie des Sciences 122 (1896). Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896. 4 o (261 x 219 mm). Contemporary black morocco-backed cloth boards, spine gilt (worn). FIRST APPEARAN...

Auction 29.10.1998
29 Oct 1998
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,070
Auction archive: Lot number 923

BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908). Bound volume of Comptes rendus des sances de l'Acadmie des Sciences 122 (1896). Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896. 4 o (261 x 219 mm). Contemporary black morocco-backed cloth boards, spine gilt (worn). FIRST APPEARAN...

Auction 29.10.1998
29 Oct 1998
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,070
Beschreibung:

BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908). Bound volume of Comptes rendus des sances de l'Acadmie des Sciences 122 (1896). Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896. 4 o (261 x 219 mm). Contemporary black morocco-backed cloth boards, spine gilt (worn). FIRST APPEARANCES OF THE SIX ARTICLES DOCUMENTING BECQUEREL'S DISCOVERY OF RADIOACTIVITY. Includes: "Sur les radiations mises par phosphorescence" (pp. 420-421); "Sur les radiations invisibles mises par les corps phosphorescents" (pp. 501-502); "Sur quelques proprits nouvelles des radiations invisibles mises par divers corps phosphorescents" (pp.559-564); "Sur les radiations invisibles mises par les sels d'uranium" (pp. 689-694); "Sur les proprits diffrentes des radiations invisibles mises par les sels d'uranium, et du rayonnement de la paroi anticathodique d'un tube de Crookes" (pp. 762-767); "mission de radiations nouvelles par l'uranium mtallique" (pp. 1086-1088). In 1903, Becquerel was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for physics, together with Marie and Pierre Curie, as his discoveries enabled the Curies' research into and identification of radium. Garrison-Morton 2001; Grolier Medicine 84a; Norman 157. -- BECQUEREL. "Recherches sur une proprit nouvelle de la matire. Activit radiante spontane ou radioactivit de la matire". In: Mmoires de l'Acadmie des Sciences de l'Institut de France 46 (1903), comprising the whole volume. Paris: Firmin-Didot-et Cie., 1903. 4 o (284 x 229 mm). 13 photographic plates. Original blue printed wrappers. FIRST APPEARANCE. A detailed summary of Becquerel's work on radioactivity. Dibner Heralds of Science 163; En franais dans la texte 332; cf. Grolier Medicine 64a; Heirs of Hippocrates 2142; PMM 393; Norman 158. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 923
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 1998
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908). Bound volume of Comptes rendus des sances de l'Acadmie des Sciences 122 (1896). Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896. 4 o (261 x 219 mm). Contemporary black morocco-backed cloth boards, spine gilt (worn). FIRST APPEARANCES OF THE SIX ARTICLES DOCUMENTING BECQUEREL'S DISCOVERY OF RADIOACTIVITY. Includes: "Sur les radiations mises par phosphorescence" (pp. 420-421); "Sur les radiations invisibles mises par les corps phosphorescents" (pp. 501-502); "Sur quelques proprits nouvelles des radiations invisibles mises par divers corps phosphorescents" (pp.559-564); "Sur les radiations invisibles mises par les sels d'uranium" (pp. 689-694); "Sur les proprits diffrentes des radiations invisibles mises par les sels d'uranium, et du rayonnement de la paroi anticathodique d'un tube de Crookes" (pp. 762-767); "mission de radiations nouvelles par l'uranium mtallique" (pp. 1086-1088). In 1903, Becquerel was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for physics, together with Marie and Pierre Curie, as his discoveries enabled the Curies' research into and identification of radium. Garrison-Morton 2001; Grolier Medicine 84a; Norman 157. -- BECQUEREL. "Recherches sur une proprit nouvelle de la matire. Activit radiante spontane ou radioactivit de la matire". In: Mmoires de l'Acadmie des Sciences de l'Institut de France 46 (1903), comprising the whole volume. Paris: Firmin-Didot-et Cie., 1903. 4 o (284 x 229 mm). 13 photographic plates. Original blue printed wrappers. FIRST APPEARANCE. A detailed summary of Becquerel's work on radioactivity. Dibner Heralds of Science 163; En franais dans la texte 332; cf. Grolier Medicine 64a; Heirs of Hippocrates 2142; PMM 393; Norman 158. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 923
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 1998
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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