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Three exceptional late 19th-century antiquarian hardcover volumes capturing the dawn of the electronic communications revolution. Written by pioneering authorities of the era, this lot features The Telephone, The Microphone & The Phonograph by Count Du Moncel (Second Edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1882); History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph by George B. Prescott (First Edition, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), which retains an elegant historical bookplate for “Dr. Atkinson, Rokeby Hill, Camberley” on the front pastedown; and The Speaking Telephone, Talking Phonograph, and Other Novelties also by George B. Prescott (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1878). These cloth-bound works are essential foundational texts for any serious historian of technology or science collector. All volumes exhibit age-appropriate wear, including shelf wear, rubbing and fraying to the cloth boards, bumped corners, spine fading, and expected interior foxing and toning, with some visible page staining present in the 1859 Prescott volume. H 3.75″, W 8.5″, D 6.25″. See photos for condition.
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