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PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. 1733–1804.:The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. London: for J. Johnson, 1772.
2 volumes in 1. 4to (260 x 210 mm). Folding biographical chart and 24 folding plates (plates I and XV bound at end of first volume). Modern quarter green morocco and marbled boards. Tape repair on verso of biographical chart, large tear with tape repair into lower third of Zz2, scattered browning and offsetting.
FIRST EDITION. One of the earliest works on optics and the most comprehensive of its time. \”Priestley\’s History of Optics had but one English edition … it remained the only English work on the subject for a hundred and fifty years and the only one in any language for fifty\” (DSB). Crook S479; Osler 1190; Waller 15652.
