FABRI, Honore (1067-1688). Synopsis optica, Lyon: Horatius Boissat & Georgius Remeus, 1667, 4° (224 x 163mm.), title vignette, 6 folding engraved plates and numerous illustrations (stamp to title, corner of B2 torn away, small hole at margin of I1, underlining and annotations in ink to 3 leaves), bound with: Scipionis CLARAMONTI. De altitudine caucasi, edited by Gabriel Naudaeus, Paris: Sebastian & Gabriel Cramoisy, 1649, 4° (224 x 163mm.) (some leaves browned), contemporary vellum boards, manuscript title to spine. [Vagnetti E III b58]

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FABRI, Honore (1067-1688). Synopsis optica, Lyon: Horatius Boissat & Georgius Remeus, 1667, 4° (224 x 163mm.), title vignette, 6 folding engraved plates and numerous illustrations (stamp to title, corner of B2 torn away, small hole at margin of I1, underlining and annotations in ink to 3 leaves), bound with: Scipionis CLARAMONTI. De altitudine caucasi, edited by Gabriel Naudaeus, Paris: Sebastian & Gabriel Cramoisy, 1649, 4° (224 x 163mm.) (some leaves browned), contemporary vellum boards, manuscript title to spine. [Vagnetti E III b58]

Provenance

Stadtbibliothek Königsberg, stamp to title; Andreas Hedio, bookplate.

Lot Essay

"An important book in the history of optics" (Weil) and the source of Newton's knowledge of Grimaldi's discovery of diffraction. It contains the short information on optics and specifically deals with perspective (see Vagnetti).

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