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SMITH, ROBERT. A Compleat System of Opticks. 2 vols. 1738
SMITH, ROBERT. A Compleat System of Opticks. 83 folding engraved plates. [6], vi, [8], 280; [2], [281]-455, [1], 171, [13] pages, including leaves of errata and ads/directions to the binder at end. 2 volumes. 4to, modern 1/2 leather; plates browned, institutional stamps on titles, some text leaves, and verso of plates, repaired clean tear in lower inner corner of Volume 2 title. Cambridge & London, 1738
- Notes: first edition. " . . . the standard eighteenth century text on the physics of light, grinding and polishing lenses, the construction of optical instruments, and the history of telescopic discoveries" (Becker). Babson 161. Becker 345.
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