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Maxwell (James Clerk ) A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 20 lithograph plates, illustrations, vol.1 errata slip, vol.2 with 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, occasional light foxing, each vol. with small leather book-label of Haven O'More, original cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, spines slightly faded, [PMM 355; Norman 1466; Wheeler 1872; Grolier/Horblit 72], 8vo, Oxford, Clarendon Press Series, 1873. ⁂ An excellent copy of Maxwell's scarce and highly important work on the electromagnetic theory of light. Maxwell "may well be judged the greatest theoretical physicist of the 19th century...Einstein's work on relativity was founded directly uponMaxwell's electromagnetic theory; it was this that led him to equate Faraday with Galileo andMaxwellwith Newton." PMM. "Maxwell's Treatise onElectricityand Magnetism is probably, after Newton's Principia, the most renowned book in the history of physics. It was published in1873and has been in continuous use ever since. In 1000 pages of crisply written text and mathematics it encompasses virtually everything that was known aboutelectricityand magnetism. It has inspired most of the work done in the subject ever since" (Basil Mahon, The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James ClerkMaxwell). Provenance: Horace Todd, Pembroke College, Cambridge (ink inscription on half-titles, later crossed through); J. Vint (ink name on titles.