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Paris, France: Hotel Drouot, 1891.. 4to. Soft Covers. 124 pp. Good with minor tears, loose pages, some dog-eared. 1005 Items described. Some hammer prices realized noted in margins. En Francais.Provenance: Jacques Laget.

Paris: Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris : Imprimerie A. Lahure, 1889. Paperback. Covers are soiled, contents of both volumes VG with isolated finger smudging. BIndings are reasonably tight, no loose pages. 2-volume set. Velum printed covers. Voplume 1: xvi, 104 pp. mnay photogreavures with letterpress tissue guards. Volume 2: 137 pp., many photogravures with letterpress tissue guards. Of note is that this is set 162 of the limited (to 300 sets) edition printed on larger Japon paper. Also of note is that this edition has lots 1-02-305 in Volume 2, which are then followed by 17 lots of additional paintings by Pater (4), Hobbema (2), Ostade, Van de Velde, Wouvermans (2), Perugino, Decamps, Delacroix (2), Millet, Troyon. About half ofg these paintings are illustrated. Uncommon in this edition. Edition limited to 300./ "Cette édition de luxe, illustrée de 120 photogravures Goupil et Cie, a été tirée à 300 exemplaires sur papier du Japon, dont 50 pour présentation et 250 numérotes de 1 a 250."/ Place… Read More

1898. Paris, (1898). 4to. Uncut and unopened in marbled covers. Kept in a full cloth-box. Large copy, printed on better paper. pp. 175-178 and pp. 1215-17 and p. 1218 in: "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Academie des Sciences" tome 127 No 3 and No 26 (comprising pp. 143-207 (no. 3) and pp. 1211-1218 (of No 26)). First editions of the announcements of the discoveries of the 2 elements Polonium and Radium."Inspired by the research of Becquerel (her teacher and friend) in radioactivity, Mme. Curie and her husband Pierre, worked in the laboratories of the Sorbonne upon uranium and thorium. They also observed that certain substances exhibited much greater radioactivity than the amount of these substances indicated. Further investigation led to the discovery of a new element, polonium, in pitchblende from Bohemia. In december 1898, it was disclosed that compounds of barium extracted from pitchblende contained a new radioactive substance a million times more active than that of the uranium… Read More