Essai d'Optique sur la gradation de la lumiere

by Pierre Bouguer

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First edition

8vo. 8vo., 11 ff., 164 pp., 2 ff., with 3 folding copper-plate engravings. Bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands gilt; head and tail chipped, and joints cracked but sound. Bookseller’s ticket of Jounaux Jeune, Libraire on front end pastedown. Inconsequential toning and fingersoiling on title and scattered leaves, otherwise immaculate copy. First edition of this important work on the measurement on light by “the father of

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