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PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. The History and Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. 1772
PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. The History and Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. 25 folding engraved plates, including frontispiece table. [14], xvi, 812, [12] pages, including subscribers' list and errata leaf (with blank verso). 4to, contemporary mottled calf, spine in 6 compartments with red morocco lettering piece in one and gilt latticework tooling in the rest, ends chipped, rear joint cracked, cords intact; minor stains on top edges, frontispiece table lightly foxed. Harrison D. Horblit booklabel. London: J. Johnson, 1772
- Notes: first edition; one-volume issue. "Undertaken as the first volume of a proposed history of all branches of experimental science, this work presents one of the earliest historical accounts of theories of vision, light, and color"--Becker 308. Wallis 225.63 (for extensive section on Newton, pages 238-354).
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