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Spectacles are good, but not always ... View picture(s) 1 ADAMS, George. Verhandeling over het zien, verklaarende kortlijk den aart van het zien, en het zamenstel van het oog; ten dienste van menschen, wier oogen zwak of ongesteld zijn; stellende hen in staat om een juist denkbeeld van de waare gesteldheid van hun gezicht te maaken, geevende de behoedmiddelen daar voor op, beneevens zekere regelen, om te weeten of men eenen bril noodig hebbe, en hoe dien als dan te kiezen, zonder dat hij het gezicht benadeele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, en met aanmerkingen verrijkt door H. Aeneae. Amsterdam, H. Gartman, W. Vermandel, & J.W. Smit, 1792. 8vo. Original boards. Large folding engraved plate with 8 images concerning optics such as cross-sections of the human eye, camera obscura, glasses etc. (8), 174, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Microscopy  Ophtalmology  Optics  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Colours and their application, by a famous French chemist View picture(s) 2 CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. Théorie des effets optiques qui présentent les etoffes de soie. Ouvrage imprimé aux frais de la Chambre de Commerce de Lyon. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1846. 8vo. Contemporary brown half morocco, gold-tooled spine. With illustrations of samples of silk weaving on large folding double-page lithographed plate by F. Giniez, printed in colours by Lemercier, Paris. 208 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Optics  Science  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only edition of an important manual on the construction of telescopes and microscopes View picture(s) 3 FUSSN1774 Instruction détaillée pour porter les lunettes de toutes les différentes especes au plus haut degré de perfection dont elles sont susceptibles tirée de la théorie dioptrique de Mr. Euler le pere et mise a la portée de tous les ouvriers en ce genre. Avec la description dún microscope qui peut passer pour le plus parfait dans son espèce et qui est propre à produire tous les grossissemens qu'on voudra. St. Petersburg, Académie Imp. des sciences, 1774. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red morocco title label, red edges. Two folding engraved plates. (10), 83, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Optics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With unrecorded map depicting the southern hemisphere including Australia View picture(s) 4 HARTSOEKER, Nicolaas. Conjectures physiques. Amsterdam, Henri Desbordes, 1706. 4to. Contemp. full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. Title with woodcut ornament, two engr. headpieces, double folding engr. map of the Southern hemisphere, woodcut illustrations in text. 371, (1), blank pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Geography  Optics  Physics  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The reflextion of light from various angles and heights on all sorts of surfaces View picture(s) 5 KREBS, Johann Friedrich. De Radio Reflexo variorum phaenomenorum & egregiorum effectuum opticorum causa. Jena, Sam. Krebs, 1674. 4to. Old wrappers. (32) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Optics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Developing images View picture(s) 6 LACAILLE, Nicolas-Louis. Traité d'optique. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée, particuliérement de la marche des images dans les in Paris, La Librairie Economique, 1802. 8vo. Later half cloth with ms. paper title-label on spine. 6 engraved folding plates with many figures. VII, 160, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Optics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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To demonstrate the existence of God View picture(s) 7 NIEUWENTYT, Bernard. Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen, ter overtuiginge van ongodisten en ongelovigen aangetoont. Den sesden druk. Amsterdam, Joannes Pauli, 1740. Large 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gold. Title printed in red and black with emblematical printer's device with the motto "Aliis inseviendo consumor", engraved allegorical frontispiece dated 1727, portrait of the author by P. van Gunst after Dk. Valkenburg, 174 anatomical, physiological, mathematical, optical and astronomical figures on 28 engraved folding plates, many woodcut tail-pieces. (8), 916, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Anatomy  Mathematics  Medicine  Optics  Religion  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Science and conjuring View picture(s) 8 OZANAM, Jacques. Recreations mathematiques et physiques ... Avec un traité nouveau des horloges elementaires. Paris, Jean Jombert, 1694. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spines. With arithmetic, diagrams and tables in text, and numerous geometrical, perspectival, technical and scientific illustrations on 64 full-page plates in the main work, and numerous illustrations of parts and details of clocks and watches on 16 full-page plates in the added treatise. [32], 400; [16], 303, [1], 163, [1], [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fireworks  French  Magic & Conjuring  Mathematics  Optics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The invention of the telescope View picture(s) 9 PORTA, Giambattista. Magiae naturalis, libri XX. Ab ipso authore expurgati, & superaucti, in quibus scientiarum naturalium divitiae, & delitiae demonstrantur. Naples, Horatius Salvianus, 1589. Small folio. 19th century half green calf, spine gilt. Title with rich ornamental Renaissance woodcut border; medallion woodcut portrait of the author at the age of fifty on verso of the title; several woodcut illustrations of stones, distilling equipment, on catoptrics, etc. in text, as well as 20 large ornamental Renaissance woodcut headpieces and numerous small woodcut vignettes and initials. (16), 303, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Occult  Optics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the refraction of light and interesting optical instruments View picture(s) 10 SPENGLER, Joseph. Optick, Catoptrick und Dioptrick in zween Theilen. Der erste enha¨lt die allgemeinen Grundsa¨tze dieser Wissenschaften: der andere giebt hinreichenden Unterricht von der Verfertigung, dem Gebrauche und den Vortheilen fast aller optischen Instrumente; als der einfache und zusammengesetzten Microscope, des Sonnenmicroscops, der holländischen, astronomischen und gemeinen Fernrohren, der dollondischen Fernrohren, der gregorianischen und neutonianischen Telescope etc. und einer neuen optischen Universalmaschine. Augsburg, Matthaeus Rieger & sons, 1775. 8vo. Contemporary paper boards. With 14 numbered folding engraved plates with 68 figures (ca. 153 x 196 mm), some tables in text. (16), 347, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  German  Jesuits  Mathematics  Microscopy  Optics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three standard medical works: on the lungs, ear and eye View picture(s) 11 SWAMMERDAM, Jan. Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicius de respiratione usuque pulmonum. In quo, praeter primam respirationis in foetu inchoationem... Editio altera. Cui subjuncta est D. Alberti Haller....... De Diaphragmatis musculis dissertatio anatomica. Editio tertia. Leyden, Conrad Wishoff, 1738. 4to. Contemporary vellum with titles in ink on spine. With engraved title by G.W. with device for the study of respiration, 7 woodcuts in text, folding engraved plate by J.  Lochmann. (14), 95, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Medicine  Medicine & Anatomy & Physiology  Optics  Otology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the origin of colour View picture(s) 12 TELESIO, Bernardino. De Colorum Generatione Opusculum. Naples, Josephus Cacchius, 1570. 4to. Modern vellum, preserved in an orange half morocco box. With large woodcut device on title. [10, including 2 blanks] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Optics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On lenses and spectacles by an 18th century optician View picture(s) 13 THOMIN, Marc Mitouflet. Instruction sur l'usage des lunettes ou conserves, pour toutes sortes de vues. Marques auxquelles on peut connoître si les vues longues ordinaires ont besoin de conserves ou lunettes, des verres convexes qui leur conviennent, & des verres concaves qui sont propres aux vues courtes. Methode pour se conserver la vue; avec une dissertation sur ce que les personnes âgées la recouvrent quelque-fois dans un âge avancé. Par M. Mitouflet, dit Thomin, Marchand Miroitier-Lunettier. Paris, Claude Lamesle, 1746. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, with gilt title, blind tooled fillet borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, red painted edges. With several nice woodcut initials, head- and endpieces. 130, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Medicine  Medicine & Anatomy & Physiology  Optics  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest instructions on the use of glasses for all sorts of viewing at all distances View picture(s) 14 THOMIN, Marc Mitouflet. Traité d'Optique Mechanique, Dans lequel on donne les règles & les proportions qu'il faut observer pour faire toutes sortes de Lunettes d'approche, Microscopes simples & composés, & autres Ouvrages qui dépendent de l'Art. Avec une instruction sur l'usage des Lunettes ou Conserves pour toutes sortes de vûes. Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Antoine Boudet, 1749. Small 8vo. Modern half marbled calf, spine ribbed with red and green title-labels, red edges. With engraved vignette on title showing all sorts of perspectival and optical instruments, and perspectival and optical diagrams and illustrations of perspectival and optical instruments, incl. a camera obscura, on 4 folding engraved plates. XII, 372, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Ophtalmology  Optics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An extremely rare 18th-century forerunner of the wonderdisc View picture(s) 15 [OPTICAL GAME]. Ecrans gravés au Feuilles. (Paris, ca. 1750). Oblong 4to. Contemp. boards, with ms. title-label on spine. With 27 engraved circular "screens" with 65 illustrations of plants, flowers, animals, birds, a dolphin, a Triton, fire, clouds, a rainbow, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, astronomical  constellations, etc., arranged around a small central rosette  and set within wide ornamental borders with blank spaces at regelar  distances with the number and title of the illustration underneath, all finely and very beautifully coloured by hand. 27 lvs. with explanatory text on engraved circular plates of the same size as the "screens". Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Optics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Dutch first edition of a classic on perspective View picture(s) 16 [PECKHAM, John]. HAMELLIUS, Pascasius. Perspectiva Tribus Libris Succinctis denuo correcta, et figuris illustrata. Paris, Aegidius Gourbinus, 1556. 4to. Modern vellum. With large woodcut printer's device on title, and 62 geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text. 43, [1 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art General  Optics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Satirizing domestic and international affairs at the end of the eighteenth century View picture(s) 17 [VERMYNEN, Kees]. Lanterne magique, of toverlantaern, o soo mooi!  Fraai Curieus! vertoonende zeer duidelyk de wonderlyke  zaaken, die in deezen wonderlyke tyd voorvallen. Eerste - twintigste en laatste vertoning. (Rotterdam), (Kees Vermynen), 1782-1783. 20 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemp. boards, uncut. With engraved frontispiece, showing people in a darkened room looking at a scene projected by a magic lantern on a screen, showing in a lighted circle the Prince of Orange with his wife and three children, an angel above holding a crown, with in the background the Dutch Lion holding the fasces, people running in fear of being struck by lightning, and a group of watchful Prussian soldiers. 320 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Americana  Dutch  England  Optics  Periodicals  Satire  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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