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Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786 - 1853)
SKRIFTER. 1 [all publ.].
Stockholm, Philipp J. Meyer, 1854.
8vo. XXIV, 552 pp.

Contemporary half calf, rubbed, library stamps (withdrawn from the Stockholm Public Library).
      $ 50
 First edition in Swedish of the first volume of Arago's Oeuvres (Paris 1854, ed. by J.A. Barral), translated by Georg Scheutz [1785-1873], and with an introduction by Humboldt.
Includes biographical notes on Augustin Jean Fresnel, Alessandro Volta, Thomas Young, Joseph Fourier, James Watt, and Lazare Carnot.

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