Histoire De La Telegraphie. Description Des Principaux Appareils Aeriens et Electriques
Paris / Caen: Ballay et Conchon / Buhour 1857. First Edition. [1]-147 pages. Publisher's original green printed wrappers. Spine taped with inked calligraphic title. Old penciled price on front cover, otherwise minor wear to the wrapper extremities. Withdrawn from the Burndy Library, with Bern Dibner gift label on front flyleaf and Alfred Still bookplate on front pastedown. Clean internally. Good. Wraps. [20706]
A genuinely scarce, and nicely illustrated, early treatise on telegraphy. 47 numbered illustrations plus some additional charts in the text. Bonel also authored a followup work many years later (1891) on marine telegraphy. Text in French. Fewer than a dozen physical copies in Worldcat as of this writing.
Title in English: "History of Telegraphy. Description of the Main Aerial and Electrical Devices"
Price: $150.00