The History and Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colours

by Joseph Priestley, L. L D. F. R S.

$2,950 · Offered by Kuenzig Books

First edition

London: Printed for J. Johnson, No 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard 1772. First Edition. Two volumes. Quarto, uniformly bound in 1/4 calf over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers, page edges tinted yellow. With the bookplate of E. N. da C. Andrade Fellow of the Royal Society on front pastedowns. Spine with red label and simple gold ruling with number 328 at base.Volume 1: v, 1 blank , viii , xvi, 1 -422

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