[SCARCE EARLY FESTSCHRIFT TESLA] Nikola Tesla: Memorandum Book on the occasion of his 80th Birthday = Livre commemoratif a l'occasion de son 80eme anniversaire = Gedenkbuch anlasslich seines 80sten Geburtstages = Spomenitsa...

TESLA, NIKOLA (1856-1943).

Édition de la Société pour la Fondation de l'Institut Nikola Tesla, Stamparia Merkur, Beograd (Belgrade), 1936.

COMPLETE TITLE: [SCARCE EARLY FESTSCHRIFT TESLA] Nikola Tesla: Memorandum Book on the occasion of his 80th Birthday = Livre commemoratif a l'occasion de son 80eme anniversaire = Gedenkbuch anlasslich seines 80sten Geburtstages = Spomenitsa povodom njegove 80-godinsnjice. Preface by Society of the Foundation of the Nikola Tesla Institute. Edited by Bogdan Gavrilovitch.

Original publisher’s cloth. Gilt title to spine and blind-tooled on boards, with complete title in four languages with a place of publishing and date of publication to the front board. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Articles in Serbian, English, German, and French. 518 p., Tesla’s portrait on frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w ills.

First and only edition of this collected articles on famous electrical engineer, inventor, and futurist Nikola Tesla published on the occasion of his 80th Birthday. It includes a preface by the Society of the Foundation of the Nikola Tesla Institute, an introduction, presentations of committees, a speech by Gavrilovitch (president of the society), Milankovitch, and Bilimovitch, biographies of foreign delegates, addresses and telegrams, 15 articles and 13 letters of world-famous men of science to Tesla on the occasion of this 75^th birthday. This book is one of the earliest comprehensive and important books published at the beginning of the 20^th century about Tesla’s biography and his inventions.

The book was edited by Gavrilovitch (1864-1947) who was a Serbian mathematician, physicist, the president and director of the Nikola Tesla Society, and the founder of the "Mathematics Institute" in Belgrade (1946). He founded the Mathematical Library in 1894, which was destroyed at the end of World War II. Together with Mihailo Petrović and Milutin Milanković, he is considered responsible for the introduction of modern mathematics in Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century.

Contributors are Gutton, Yadoff, Schröter, Bouthillon, Biermanns, Werfhorst, Damyanovitch, Bayalovitch, Jovanovitch, Turpain, Kiebitz, Zacek, Kolhörster, Jovanovitch, and Boksan; also the book includes reprint of an 1892 Electrical Engineer article on "The Tesla Multiphase Motors" LATER published in New York Herald Tribune, on February 4th, 1894, with "Nikola Tesla: The Problem of increasing human energy" reprinted from The Century Magazine, June 1900, 'The Tesla Patents' from Electrical Review, September 19, 1900.

As of January 2024, OCLC and KVK show only four copies worldwide (1401605625, 499990561), none are in the US libraries.