Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1726)
Optice: Sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis, Libri Tres.

Lausanne & Geneva: Sumpt. Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, 1740.



Quarto, Latin translation by Samuel Clarke; half-title present, engraved portrait of Newton by Daudet bound opposite title; title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette by Daudet on title; illustrated with twelve folding engraved diagrams; bound in full contemporary parchment over boards with damage to head and tail of spine; unidentified Hereford, England owner's bookplate inside front board; 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.

Babson 141.