SESTIER, Félix - MEHU, Camille. De la foudre, de ses formes - Lot 162

SESTIER, Félix - MEHU, Camille. De la foudre, de ses formes et des ses effets sur l'homme, les animaux, les végétaux et les corps bruts, des moyens de s'en préserver et des paratonnerres. Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1866. 2 vol. in-8. Contemporary green half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt star in boxes, gilt title, author, tomaison, date and place in tail. Rare first edition. "A very curious work and the most complete on this interesting subject". "Histoire des feux de Saint-Elme. Its manifestations on steeples, ships, rocks, water, trees, its transformations into lightning discharges. Globes of fire. Igneous meteors. Lightning's incredible oddities. Its whims, its extraordinary shapes. Fulgurites or thunder stones". Caillet, III, 10169. First leaves of volume I and title te faux-titre slightly and uniformly browned, else a good copy.