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Book Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
Book Title: The Telephone, The Microphone and the Phonograph
Title: Moncel The Telephone, The Microphone & the Phonograph 1879 1st
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Place Published: New York
Edition: 1st American Edition
Pages: 277
Publication Year: 1879
Type: Ex-Library
Cover: Cloth
Format: Cloth
Language: English
Author: Moncel, Count Du (Theodose-Achille-Louis) (1821-1884)
Features: 277 pp + ads. Illus 74 figs. Authorized translation with, additions and corrections by the author. Small octavo. With, ownership inscription of C. H. Sewall, Secretary of the Albany, District Telegraph Co. (May 1880) and stamps and signature, (1916) from the scientific library of E. A. Faller, a patent, attorney. The Count du Moncel was a French aristocrat who, became a dedicated scientific explorer and inventor, whose main, discovery was the foundation for Edison's carbon transmitter., However, his chief work was writing about electrical science, and in this book, he summarizes all the knowledge to date, (1879) available on the telephone, microphone and phonograph, (unaccountably leaving out the first inventor of the telephone,, Reis. ) Beautifully illustrated with figs. Demonstrating the, technical aspects of the science. Dark gold cloth covers are, worn and damp-lightened at front/back edges. Spine is darkened, but legible, spine tips chipped away. Interior Victorian brown, endpapers fragile with price sticker scar, scientific library, stamps to a number of pages, hinges cracking, binding bit, fragile, pages clean with just occasional foxing, one page has, old clipping shadow. A fragile copy but one with nice, provenance.
