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Lot 2028:
Description
A fascinating collection of early telecommunications history that any serious student of technological innovation would prize. This lot includes four significant late 19th and 20th-century volumes detailing the evolution of communication: Count Du Moncel’s The Telephone, The Microphone & The Phonograph (1882 second London edition, cloth-bound with gilt spine text), George B. Prescott’s seminal Bell’s Electric Speaking Telephone: Its Invention, Construction, Application, Modification, and History (1884 edition, D. Appleton & Co., featuring a stunning fold-out engraving of The Central Telephone Exchange in Paris), Frederick Leland Rhodes’ Beginnings of Telephony (1929 first edition, Harper & Brothers, containing a portrait frontispiece of Alexander Graham Bell), and Robert V. Bruce’s comprehensive biography Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude (Little, Brown and Company). This collection offers a deep dive into the foundational patents, societal impacts, and mechanical triumphs of early acoustic science. Overall, the collection is in good to very good antiquarian condition, showing varying degrees of shelf wear, edge bumping, and spine sunning consistent with age; the 1884 Prescott volume shows heavier handling wear to the cloth, standard library stamping to the title page, and minor splitting to the fold-out illustration seams but remains completely intact. H 6.25″, W 9.5″, D 6.5″. See photos for condition.
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