GROVE, William Robert.

On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Experiments made with a View of Ascertaining the Rationale of its Action and its Applications to Eudiometry...from the Philosophical Transactions. — Part II. for 1843.

One plate (detached & quite foxed). 1 p.l., [91]-112 pp. London: R. & J.E. Taylor, 1843. Offprint with a specially printed title-page; presentation copy, inscribed on the title “From the Author” (cropped). This is the first description of Grove’s “gas battery”, “which was, in fact, the earliest fuel cell; its possibilities have only recently been exploited.”–D.S.B., V, p. 559. Very good copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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