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Lot 89
SMITH, Robert (1689-1768). A Compleat System of Optics.
Estimate: $600 - $800
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SMITH, Robert (1689-1768). A Compleat System of Optics. First Edition.
Cambridge: printed for the author, and sold there by Cornelius Crownfield, and at London by Stephen Austen, at the Angel and Bible in St. Paul's Churchyard, and Robert Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738].
A compleat system of opticks in four books,: viz. A popular, a mathematical, a mechanical, and a philosophical treatise. To which are added remarks upon the whole, by Robert Smith.
Four books bound into a single volume, with illustrations, diagrams.
Bound in leather, raised bands, decorative gilt panels, red leather spine label, gilt spine title, speckled edges.
H: 10 1/4 W: 8 in.
With bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, “Belper.” With two handwritten documents in ink , “Optical lectures read in Cambridge 1669,” and “Numerum in praesenti,” laid in.
Condition
Good. Covers rubbed, edges and corners rubbed and bumped, hinges split and some pages partially detached; p. 342-352 detached.; foxing at edges.
Overall Dimensions
Width: 8.00
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From the Estate of John A. Davidson, Jr. Proceeds to benefit the APL of Lorain County and the Dittrick Museum.
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