FARADAY, Michael. Experimental Researches in Electricity. Extracts from Philosophical Transactions, series 1, 2, 11-22, and a Supplementary Note to the 11th Series. London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1832-1839. 4o. Engraved plates. "Faraday was both one of the greatest physicists of the nineteenth century and one of the finest experimenters of all time. His principal contributions were made in advancing our knowledge of the nature and potentialities of electricity," (PMM 308). -- Further extracts from Philosophical Transactions. London, 1831-1845. Includes: "On a peculiar class of acoustical figures..." 1831; "Chemical account of the Cold Bokkeveld meteoric stone," 1839; "On the liquefaction and solidification of bodies generally existing as gases," 1845. -- 102 brief extracts from Quarterly Journal of Science. [1816-1830]. -- 13 brief extracts from Annals of Philosophy. 1821-1826. Provenance: Institutional; from the Library of Haskell F. Norman (bookplates). (128)