135 - LA CAILLE (Abbé Nicolas-Louis de). Elementary Lessons in Optics. New edition, revised, corrected, and expanded.

LA CAILLE (Abbé Nicolas-Louis de). Elementary Lessons in Optics. New edition, revised, corrected, and expanded. Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1764, in-8, IV-204 pp.—12 figures. Contemporary marbled fawn sheepskin binding, smooth spine with decorative lettering, title label, marbled edges. — Handwritten bookplate on the half-title page: “Victor Dugar, August 7, 1799.” Upper cap and corners slightly rubbed. This famous treatise, in use throughout the 18th century, contains information on the manufacture of corrective lenses. It also addresses perspective (including solar and lunar shadows). The line-engraved plates are folded.