COLLECTION DE MEMOIRES RELATIFS A LA PHYSIQUE [CT IN 5 VOLS] by Société Française De Physique - 1884-91

Paris: Gauthier-Villars,. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1884-91. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 9 folding plates. Xvi, 414; viii, 412; [4], 403, [1]; [4], xlii, [2], 216, [2], 226; [4], 429 pages, including half-titles. 5 volumes. 8vo, 230x150 mm, contemporary prize bindings of 1/2 red morocco with gilt emblem of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand on covers, few spine ends slightly chipped or worn; half-titles and page [i] in Volume 4 browned. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1884-91 NOTES: The first volume contains writings on electricity and magnetism by Charles-Augustin Coulomb; the second and third, papers on electrodynamics by André-Marie Ampère; the fourth and fifth deal with the pendulum, including an extensive bibliography of works on the subject from 1629 to 1885. .