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NEWTON, Isaac (1642–1727)
Optices libri tres accedunt eiusdem Lectiones opticae, et opuscula
omnia ad lucem & colores pertinentia sumpta ex Transactionibus
Philosophicis. Editio altera Patavina.
Padua: typis Seminarii... apud Joannem Manfrè, 1773.
4to: a8 (a8+1) A–K8 L4 ; c2 2A–G8 ; 2H–N8 (+/–N1) (blanks L4 and
2G8), 199 leaves, pp. viii–xx 166 [2, blank]; [4] 110 [2, blank]; 93
[1, blank]. Printed titlepage in red and black with woodcut device,
woodcut headpieces and initials. Divisional titles to Lectiones opticae
and ‘Appendix’. The Wnal leaf in the prelims, pp. xix/xx is a singleton,
here bound before a8 (pp. xvii/xviii).
42 engraved plates: numbered [Optices] Lib.I. Par. I. Tab. I–V; Par.
II. Tab. I–IV; Lib. II. Tab. I–II; Lib. III. Tab. I. [Lectiones opticae]
Tav. I–XXVIII. [Appendix] Tav. I–II. (Bound as throwouts at the end
of each section).
234 x 175mm. A good clean and fresh copy.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards, multiple worm holes in boards
and endleaves.
Provenance: Gregorio Graziati, with an Italian inscription recording
that he received the book as the prize for Rhetoric at a school in
Padua in 1797 but died on 5 July 1798; the inscription was written by
the Carmelite brother Agostino [illegible] nine days later (inscription
damaged by a later bookplate, now removed).
Third collected edition of Newton’s optical writings in Latin: Optice,
Lectiones opticae, and ‘Appendix’ containing the sixteen optical papers
from the Philosophical transactions. This edition was Wrst printed at
Padua in 1749 and reprinted at Graz in 1765. Wallis 185; not in Babson.
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NOCETI, Carlo (1694–1759); BOŠCOVIĆ, Rudjer Josip (1711–1787).
De iride et aurora boreali, carmina... cum notis Josephi Rogerii
Boscovich.
Rome: Ex typographia Palladis, excudebant Nicolaus et Marcus Palearini,
1747.
4to: a 6 A–Q 4 (cancel K3), 70 leaves, pp. [12] 127 [1]. Woodcut device
on title, woodcut head and tail­pieces and initials.
2 engraved plates of diagrams, numbered Tab I–II (bound as throwouts
at pp. 48 and at the end).
224 x 165mm. Worm holes in inner margin, well away from the text
and images.
Binding: Contemporary sprinkled sheep, gilt spine, sprinkled paper
pastedowns, red and yellow mottled page edges, old paper shelf labels
on spine. Worming in upper joint, worn but a nice copy.