Optics.- Pecham (John) Perspectivae communis libri tres, oval woodcut device on title,...
Optics.- Pecham (John) Perspectivae communis libri tres, oval woodcut device on title, woodcut initial, headpiece and numerous diagrams, contemporary limp vellum, edges and spine repaired, central patch on lower cover repaired, [DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria 35], 4to (188 x 133mm.), Cologne, Apud Haeredes Arnoldi Birkmanni, 1580.
*** The second edition edited by Pascal Duhamel (see previous lot). This copy with ink inscription "Ex lib. Borelli" on title, i.e. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-79), Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician, often described as the father of biomechanics.
Optics.- Pecham (John) Perspectivae communis libri tres, oval woodcut device on title, woodcut initial, headpiece and numerous diagrams, contemporary limp vellum, edges and spine repaired, central patch on lower cover repaired, [DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria 35], 4to (188 x 133mm.), Cologne, Apud Haeredes Arnoldi Birkmanni, 1580.
*** The second edition edited by Pascal Duhamel (see previous lot). This copy with ink inscription "Ex lib. Borelli" on title, i.e. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-79), Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician, often described as the father of biomechanics.
