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Two scientific pamphlets from the personal library of Marie Curie, both with her "Madame Curie" rubber stamp to the front wrapper or title-page. Includes: "(Faraday Lecture), The Fundamental Properties of the Elements" by Theodore William Richards, published in Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1912, 6.25 x 9.5, 20 pages; and "Etude des Trajectoires des Rayons α dans l'Argon par la Methode de D.T.R. Wilson," by Francis Perrin, published in Paris by Les Presses Universitaires de France in 1922, 6.25 x 9.5, eight pages, stamped "Madame Curie" on the title page. Housed together in a handsome custom-made half morocco presentation folder with marbled slipcase. In very good to fine condition, with some light dampstaining to the bottom of the pages of the Perrin booklet.
Provenance: Lot 34, PBA Galleries, May 23, 2002.
