細節
BOUGUER, PIERRE. Essai d'optique, sur la gradation de la lumire. Paris: Claude Jombert, 1729. 3 folding engraved plates, 2 -page publisher's catalogue at end, woodcut headpieces and initials. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, edges marbled and gilt, wear to joints and extremities, tear to head of spine; first blank removed, hole in leaf G8 affecting 4 lines of text with the loss of some words of text, traces of booklabel adhered to title. FIRST EDITION of the first treatise on photometry. As the discoverer of a practical method of measuring the intensity of light, Bouguer was the founder of this branch of optics. Norman 283. Sold not subject to return.
來源
Looten de l'Enclos (engraved armorial 18th-century bookplate); P. Lanzweert, pharmacist of Ostende (typographic book-label, G3r); Haskell F. Norman (sale, Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 318).