On the electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kinds
By: in a letter from Mr. Alexander Volta ... to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, bart. ... ; read June 26, 1800
Contributors: Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820; Basire, James, 1730-1802, engraver; Royal Society (Great Britain); United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1800
Language: fre
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Electricity; Early works to 1850; Volta effect
Other titles: Mr. Volta on the electricity excited by the contact of conducting substances of different kinds; Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Notes: Caption title.

Extracted from: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. [90], pt. 2, article no. 17 (1800).

The leaf of plates is captioned "Plate XVII" and signed: Basire sc.

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 60

Text in French.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Scientific Library, United States Patent Office.

SCDIRB copy has a later brown cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine and faux marbled endpapers.