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Curie, Marie (1867-1934) Traité de Radioactivité. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1910. First edition, two octavo volumes, illustrated with a photographic frontispiece portrait of Pierre Curie in the first volume and seven full-page plates, bound in contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards, 9 1/2 x 6 in. (2)
Provenance: From the collection of B. Leonard Holman, M.D., Philip H. Cook Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, and Chairman, Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Estimate $800-1,000
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