Burnside Rare Books

Traite de Radioactivite [Treatise on Radioactivity]

Curie, Madame P. [Marie Sklodowska Curie]

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1910.

First edition, first printing. 426; 548 pp with frontispiece portrait of Pierre Curie, seven plates, and many in-text diagrams. Two volumes, in late 20th century quarter leather bindings stamped in gilt. Text in French. Very Good with bindings worn, former female ownership to front blanks. Faint staining to top textblock edge of Volume II. The groundbreaking treatise on radioactivity by physicist Marie Curie. Having isolated radium it is pure state she was awarded her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, the first time a man or woman had been awarded a second prize. Item #140947784

Price: $5,500