Published by Post Hill Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 1682616002 ISBN 13: 9781682616000
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Published by Wish Publishing, 2005
ISBN 10: 1930546726 ISBN 13: 9781930546721
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Published by Balboa Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1982222093 ISBN 13: 9781982222093
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Published by Demos Health, 2014
ISBN 10: 1936303655 ISBN 13: 9781936303656
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Published by BookBaby, 2023
ISBN 10: 1667889710 ISBN 13: 9781667889719
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Published by Balboa Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1982222115 ISBN 13: 9781982222116
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Published by ReadHowYouWant, 2014
ISBN 10: 1459679946 ISBN 13: 9781459679948
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Published by Cornell University Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0801446260 ISBN 13: 9780801446269
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Published by Sunshine Publications, San Francisco, 1951
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[20p] includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, short history by Li-Kar on inside front cover, b&w photos of the performers in drag, centerfold drawing by Li-Kar, very worn and soiled program in stapled pictorial wraps with cover art also by Li-Kar.
Published by Sunshine Publications, San Francisco, 1951
First Edition
[20p] includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, short history by Li-Kar on inside front cover, b&w photos of the performers in drag, centerfold drawing by Li-Kar, light wear else very good program in stapled pictorial wraps with cover art also by Li-Kar.
Published by Venice, appresso gli eredi di Giovanni Varisco, 1593
Seller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. [OPTICS, MIRRORS AND VISION] FIRST EDITION thus. 4to. ff. (viii) 48. Roman letter, little Italic. Woodcut printer's device to t-p, 64 geometrical diagrams, decorated initials. Few ll. browned (poorly dried paper), faint water stain to last three gatherings in places, very minor marginal foxing. A good copy in contemporary vellum, modern bookplate to front pastedown, '12 May 1823' and casemark inked to fep, autograph 'Marcius(?) Meraius' [Müller] to t-p, small not modern stamp to lower outer blank corner of last. In modern folding box. A good copy of the first edition of the first Italian translation of this fundamental optics manuala 'rare book' (Riccardi I/1, 570), 'rarer'according to Guglielmo Libri'than the original work' ('Catalogo', 1861, n.5656). Giovanni Paolo Gallucci (1538-c.1621) was a renowned mathematician and cosmographer, with interests in astrology; he was also a frequent translator of medical and scientific works, including 'I tre libri'. This was a major optics manual written by the English Franciscan John Peckham (c.1230-92), student at Paris under St Bonaventure, and later professor at Oxford and archbishop of Canterbury. Inspired by the theories of Francis Bacon, whom he met either in Paris or Oxford, his 'Perspectiva communis' (1279) was said to be so named as it was widely used. In the following centuries it was 'the most popular book on this subject' as well as 'the text-book until as late as about 1600', when Kepler published the first modern study of optics (ten Doesschate, 'Oxford', 334). Gallucci's vernacular translation made this fundamental yet concise work available to a broader audience. 'Perspectiva' was an explanation of the Arab mathematician Alhazen's theories in 100 propositions, most followed by Gallucci's brief commentary and illustrated with diagrams. Alhazen explored refraction, double vision and the physical circumstances that give rise to visual perception; he was the first recorded scientist to mention refraction by curved surfaces (ten Doesschate, 'Oxford', 323). Gallucci's glosses feature examples taken from everyday life. For instance, 'Propositio IX' illustrates why a fire appears bigger at night, and bigger from afar, when one cannot distinguish the individual flames. Gallucci compares this to what happens in church to a short-sighted person who looks at the many lit candles: without his spectacles on, the candles will appear like they are big, and touching one another; with his spectacles on, the individual flames will be discernible and the candles smaller. The long section on mirrors discusses the reflection of colours, the angles of incidence, transparency, the function of lead on glass mirrors, mirrors made of iron or diamond, spherical or plain or shaped like a column, and the appearance of images on broken mirrors. An outstanding, clear scientific milestone and the basis of key modern optics theories including Kepler's. BM STC It., p. 496; Riccardi I/1, 570. Not in Brunet. G. ten Doesschate, 'Oxford and the Revival of Optics in the Thirteenth Century', Vision Res. 1 (1962), 313-42.