Souvenirs et Mémoires: Autobiographie
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- Geneve [Geneva]: Imprimerie Aubert-Schuchardt, 1893
Geneve [Geneva]: Imprimerie Aubert-Schuchardt, 1893. Very Good+. Genève: Imprimerie Aubert-Schuchardt, 1893. First Edition. Octavo (25cm); contemporary brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; [8],636pp.; frontispiece, plates throughout. Boards a bit scuffed; contemporary and 20th century ownership ex libris to front pastedown of an Alfred Chapuis of Geneva and the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross. Very Good to Near Fine overall with the small ticket of Genevan binder J. Hess to front free endpaper verso.
Excellent copy of the posthumous memoirs of the Swiss physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon (1802-1893), best known for measuring the speed of sound together with his colleague Charles Sturm. The volume is amply illustrated with evocative scenes of Colladon sitting in a little rowboat, his ear to a sound receptor deep beneath the water.
Excellent copy of the posthumous memoirs of the Swiss physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon (1802-1893), best known for measuring the speed of sound together with his colleague Charles Sturm. The volume is amply illustrated with evocative scenes of Colladon sitting in a little rowboat, his ear to a sound receptor deep beneath the water.