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La perspectiue curieuse du Reverend P. Niceron, minime : diuisée en quatre liures : auec L'optique et la catoptrique du R. P. Mersenne du mesme ordre ...

Accession number
PML 77459
Creator
Nicéron, Jean François, 1613-1646.
Published
Paris :bChez Jean Du Puis ..., 1663.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1981.
Notes
A reissue with cancel t.p. of the sheets of the 1652 ed.
Added engraved t.p. from the plate of the 1638 ed. by Pierre Daret has imprint (re-engraved?): A Paris : Chez la vefue [sic] de F. Langlois ... 1652; port. engraved by Michel Lasne, plates by Jean Blanchin.
"Optique et la catoptrique"--has special t.p. dated 1651, with imprint of la veuve de Langlois.
Signatures: pi² a² e² A-2A⁴ a⁴ e² ²A-I⁴ ²K² ²L-R⁴ ²S² [missigning D3 as E3]
Last leaf blank.
Description
[12], 191, [13], 134, [2] p., 53 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm.
Provenance
Formerly owned by William Molyneux, possibly William Molyneux, 1656-1698 (inscription), Earl of Bute (bookplates), Donald M. Oenslager.
Binding
Calf.
Classification
Department