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HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von. Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Physik, IX. Band. Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867.
8o (225x 152mm). Wood-engraved text illustrations. (Occasional foxing.) Contemporary half morocco, pebble cloth sides (some rubbing).
[Bound with:] Atlas von elf Tafeln zu H. Helmholtz, Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867. 8o. 5 engraved plates by C.E. Weber (2 folding), one with hand coloring, 6 lithographed plates. (The engraved plates with some foxing, creases along folds.)
FIRST EDITION in book form of "the most important book on the physiology and physics of vision" (Grolier/Horblit). This work emcompassed all previous research in the field, including the results of Helmholtz's work in optics: his study of colors, and his investigations of the physiology of vision and the dioptrics of the eye, enterprises aided by his invention of the ophthalmoscope and the ophthalmometer. Helmholtz's introduction to the work states that it originally appeared in three parts, the first in 1856, the second in 1860 and the third in 1866. Horblit describes a copy in six parts published between 1856 and 1867. Garrison-Morton 1513; Grolier/Horblit 49b; Norman 1046; Waller 4299.
8o (225x 152mm). Wood-engraved text illustrations. (Occasional foxing.) Contemporary half morocco, pebble cloth sides (some rubbing).
[Bound with:] Atlas von elf Tafeln zu H. Helmholtz, Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867. 8o. 5 engraved plates by C.E. Weber (2 folding), one with hand coloring, 6 lithographed plates. (The engraved plates with some foxing, creases along folds.)
FIRST EDITION in book form of "the most important book on the physiology and physics of vision" (Grolier/Horblit). This work emcompassed all previous research in the field, including the results of Helmholtz's work in optics: his study of colors, and his investigations of the physiology of vision and the dioptrics of the eye, enterprises aided by his invention of the ophthalmoscope and the ophthalmometer. Helmholtz's introduction to the work states that it originally appeared in three parts, the first in 1856, the second in 1860 and the third in 1866. Horblit describes a copy in six parts published between 1856 and 1867. Garrison-Morton 1513; Grolier/Horblit 49b; Norman 1046; Waller 4299.