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NEWTON, Isaac. Optice: sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis libri tres.. Latine reddidit... Accedunt Tractatus duo eiusdem authoris de speciebus & magnitudine figurarum curvilinearum, Latine scripti. Translation by Samuel Clarke [assisted by Abraham de Moivre]. London: Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford, 1706.
4° (242 x 195mm.). 19 folding engraved plates. Contemporary red roan-backed marbled boards (rubbed). Provenance: Dr. J.Gesner (inscription); A.Gratry (ownership stamp on title); French late 19th-century ecclesiastical bookplate.
FIRST LATIN EDITION. A fine unsophisticated copy. Wallis 179; Babson 137.
4° (242 x 195mm.). 19 folding engraved plates. Contemporary red roan-backed marbled boards (rubbed). Provenance: Dr. J.Gesner (inscription); A.Gratry (ownership stamp on title); French late 19th-century ecclesiastical bookplate.
FIRST LATIN EDITION. A fine unsophisticated copy. Wallis 179; Babson 137.