VITELLIO (ca. 1230-d. after ca. 1275). [Optica] id est de natura, ratione, & proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum atque formarum, quam vulgo Perspectivam vocant, libri X, Nuremberg: Io. Petreius, 1535, 2°, title in red and black with large woodcut design of optical phenomena, full-page woodcut of dedicatee's coat-of-arms, woodcut diagrams in text (lacking some preliminaries, one inch tear mark in title affecting illustration, first quire detached, and title itself slightly crumpled at inner margin, quire 9e also detached where block split, some light marginal waterstains, lacking final blank), 19th-century morocco-backed boards (worn, inner hinges split). [Adams V898; Honeyman 3057] Provenance: Ex libris Liechtensteinianis (bookplate)

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VITELLIO (ca. 1230-d. after ca. 1275). [Optica] id est de natura, ratione, & proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum atque formarum, quam vulgo Perspectivam vocant, libri X, Nuremberg: Io. Petreius, 1535, 2°, title in red and black with large woodcut design of optical phenomena, full-page woodcut of dedicatee's coat-of-arms, woodcut diagrams in text (lacking some preliminaries, one inch tear mark in title affecting illustration, first quire detached, and title itself slightly crumpled at inner margin, quire 9e also detached where block split, some light marginal waterstains, lacking final blank), 19th-century morocco-backed boards (worn, inner hinges split). [Adams V898; Honeyman 3057] Provenance: Ex libris Liechtensteinianis (bookplate)

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The earliest surviving treatise on optics written by a European.