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HELMHOLTZ, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von. Handbuch der Physiologischen Optik, Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867, 8°, FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, wood-engraved illustrations, 11 plates, 2 folding (one neatly torn along crease with a small repair, perforation stamp on title, plates stamped on verso, accession stamp on following leaf), contemporary cloth (rebacked and recornered in library cloth), ex University of Chicago Library Rare Science Duplicate Collection; [Grolier Horblit Science 49b; GM 1513: "one of the greatest books on physiological optics"; Norman 1046].