Paris: G. Masson, no date (1878). First edition, first issue. 8vo. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Marey to engineer and physicist Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) on half-title. Illustrated with 348 in-text and full page wood-engravings. Modern quarter blue goatskin over marbled paper-covered boards; all edges trimmed; later marbled endpapers; scattered wrinkling and minor creasing to edges of text; original limp green wrappers bound in at front and rear.