Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. The History and Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. 25 folding engraved plates, including frontispiece table. [14], xvi, 812, [12] pages, including subscribers' list and errata leaf (with blank verso). 4to, contemporary mottled calf, spine in 6 compartments with red morocco lettering piece in one and gilt latticework tooling in the rest, ends chipped, rear joint cracked, cords intact; minor stains on top edges, frontispiece table lightly foxed. Harrison D. Horblit booklabel. London: J. Johnson, 1772

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first edition; one-volume issue. "Undertaken as the first volume of a proposed history of all branches of experimental science, this work presents one of the earliest historical accounts of theories of vision, light, and color"--Becker 308. Wallis 225.63 (for extensive section on Newton, pages 238-354).