RARE Autograph and Book Auction October 17th
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Cavallo, Tiberius The Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1803. First edition, 1st volume only 8vo, Robert Fulton London June 16th , 1805 on Title page of volume … 9 double-page engraved plates mounted on guards, contemporary calf Note: Italian physicist and moral philosopher, he invented Cavallo's multiplier, a device used for the amplification of small electric charges, making them observable and measurable in an electroscope. He also worked on refrigeration.

Provenance; this book was sold by the autograph expert Charles Hamilton at the Waldorf Astoria in New York Sale on October 10, 1974. We can find no other books from Fulton’s Library to have come up for sale in the last 50 years.

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Auction closed on Thursday, October 17, 2024.

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