MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK. A Treatise on Electricit

MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. 20 plates. Errata leaf in each volume. Publisher's 16-page catalogue bound at end of Volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, original red cloth, spines faded; largely unopened. Contemporary prize inscription on Volume 1 half-title from the Military & Submarine School of Telegraphy, their bookplate on front free endpaper. Oxford, 1873

first edition, Norman's second issue, of Maxwell's classic work on the electromagnetic theory of light, which paved the way for Einstein's work on relativity. Grolier/Horblit 72; Norman 1466; Wheeler Gift 1872.

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