Item #5080 Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of...
THE FIRST EDITION OF NEWTON’S OPTICKS - THE EARLIEST OF THE SIX KNOWN AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPIES



Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two...


London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince’s Arms in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1704.

First edition, first issue, and a superlative copy, presented by Newton to his close friend and collaborator Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, with an inscription recording the gift in Fatio’s hand and with his ink and pencil annotations in.....

Price: $825,000.00
Item #5928 Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy...
THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT - LARGE PAPER PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HUYGENS



Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans...


Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1690.

First edition, first issue, of Huygens’ path-breaking exposition of his wave theory of light; this is an extremely rare large paper presentation copy inscribed by Huygens to Pierre Daniel Huet. Huygens had developed his theory of light in 1676 and 1677, and “completed the Traité in 1678, but left it unpublished for twelve years, until.....

Price: $250,000.00
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