£150
8vo, pp. 135, [1]. Numerous diagrams included within pagination. Original orange boards backed in red cloth, boards printed in black. Somewhat toned. Boards soiled, spine cloth creased and a little marked, some wear to extremities. Ink stamp to pastedown: ‘Majoration 20%’.
A scarce book of telephone schematics by French popular science writer Raoul Marquis, who wrote as Henry de Graffigny on a wide range of subjects (including a sprawling science-fiction tale translated into English in 2009 as 'The Extraordinary Adventures of A Russian Scientist') and was the model for a character in Celine's Death on The Installment Plan. This title is unsurprisingly completely unknown to Library Hub, with Worldcat recording 4 holdings in total across three editions, this third edition in the BNF only.
