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    Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers. Large quarto. Bottom of spine chipped, otherwise very good. The contents page states this was published for "La Classe 17 bis de l'Exposition Internationale de Paris 1937." The preface is by Charles Malégarie, the President of this class. Malégarie was the director of the Compagnie parisienne de distribution d'électricité. Very richly illustrated, with a variety of articles on aspects of electricity, its use in warships, in railroads, in the future, in lighting, etc. Advertisements on last fifteen or so pages from electrical concerns. Six illustrations printed in heliochrome after portions of a painting executed by Raoul Dufy for the Palais de l'Electricité et de la Lumiere at the Paris Exposition of 1937.