Optics.- Pecham (John) Perspectiva tribus libris succinctis denuo correcta, woodcut device on...
Optics.- Pecham (John) Perspectiva tribus libris succinctis denuo correcta, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, numerous diagrams, text largely printed in italics, without final blank leaf but several other blank leaves bound in at end, later English speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, 4to (221 x 152mm.), Paris, Apud Aegidium Gourbinum, 1556.
*** Pecham's textbook of optics, the principal work on the subject from when it was written in 1279 until the end of the 16th century, is here edited with a commentary by Pascal Duhamel, who added new figures for the text. Duhamel,who was mathematician to the French king, used Georg Hartmann's edition of 1524 which became the standard.
Provenance: W. Patten (signature dated 1557 in upper corner of title), possibly William Patten (d.1598), author and governent official; Turner Collection at Keele University (bookplate); David DiLaura with his Bibliotheca Opticoria bookplate.
Optics.- Pecham (John) Perspectiva tribus libris succinctis denuo correcta, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, numerous diagrams, text largely printed in italics, without final blank leaf but several other blank leaves bound in at end, later English speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, 4to (221 x 152mm.), Paris, Apud Aegidium Gourbinum, 1556.
*** Pecham's textbook of optics, the principal work on the subject from when it was written in 1279 until the end of the 16th century, is here edited with a commentary by Pascal Duhamel, who added new figures for the text. Duhamel,who was mathematician to the French king, used Georg Hartmann's edition of 1524 which became the standard.
Provenance: W. Patten (signature dated 1557 in upper corner of title), possibly William Patten (d.1598), author and governent official; Turner Collection at Keele University (bookplate); David DiLaura with his Bibliotheca Opticoria bookplate.
