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SMITH, Robert. A Compleat System of Opticks in four books, Cambridge: printed for the Author, sold by Cornelius Crownfield, Stephen Austen and Robert Dodsley, 1738. 2 volumes, 4°, 82 folding engraved plates only (of 83, margin of first title browned, one plate with severe but clean tear, most plates spotted or browned, occasional spotting to text, hinges strengthened), contemporary calf (worn, backstrip of vol. I broken). FIRST EDITION. Babson 1614; Dawson 6284.
This work "greatly stimulated the construction of optical apparatus and is the most helpful historical treatise on light of its time" (Babson). (2)
This work "greatly stimulated the construction of optical apparatus and is the most helpful historical treatise on light of its time" (Babson). (2)