La Vie des Atomes
Paris: Earnest Flammariion, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Near Fine. Item #015647
Contemporary calf spine over marbled boards, red and black leather spine label with gilt library stamp at foot, 248pp. [Text in French]. Illustrated with [4] b/w plates of photographs, showing atoms under a microscope. With about 40 in-text diagrams. Title page has 3 rubber stamped library markings, and one embossed library stamp; with 2 library labels laid on front endpapers; boards and edges worn, else near fine. Augustin Boutaric (12 August 1885 - 31 March 1949) was a career physicist and chemist at the University of Dijon. He wrote extensively about electricity and the physical sciences. This First Edition work, in French, narrates the Life of Atoms, from electrons, ions, their structure and radioactivity.
Price (CAD): $125.00