Direct Vision, First Edition (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Barron, Tom; Galloway, Jo (illustrator). First Edition. Wording on the front cover: "6 Poems For The Direct Vision by Adam Berger".

PAMPHLET. Condition: Collectible; VG. First Edition. This softcover book is square and tight. The pages are clean, with no markings or folds. The wrappers are bright with only minor wear to the points and no folds or creases to the spine. The condition is Very Good, with some fade to the upper edge and stapled edge. Not ex-library. No remainder mark.

Paperback. Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1971. Signed by Author on free page with Presentation notation, with date. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 13 pages. 6143.

Hardcover No DJ as issued. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover No DJ as issued. The Kitab al-mana'ir or Book of Optics of Ibn al-Haytham, composed in the second quarter of the 11th century AD, consists of seven books (or maqalas) which may be divided into two sections: the first is made up of books I-III and treats the rectilinear radiation of light and colour, and vision produced by rectilinear radiation. The present work comprises an English translation of and commentary on the first section, following Abdelhamid I. Sabra's edition of the corresponding Arabic text, published in 1983. From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical 'Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy. Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form - alchemical results or talismans. Light shelfwear, else near fine. 8vo. 367pp, 246pp. Illus. (b/w). Oatmeal cloth with brown stamped titling. Former owner library stamp.

Near Fine set in publishers oatmeal cloth. Two Volumes. Illustrated. 1st edition.The Kitab al-mana?ir or Book of Optics of Ibn al-Haytham, composed in the second quarter of the 11th century AD, consists of seven books (or maqalas) which may be divided into two sections: the first is made up of books I-III and treats the rectilinear radiation of light and colour, and vision produced by rectilinear radiation; the second, consisting of books IV-VII, is a study of reflection and refraction of light and of vision produced by reflected and refracted rays. The present work comprises an English translation of and commentary on the first section, following Abdelhamid I. SabraÕs edition of the corresponding Arabic text, published in 1983. A Latin translation of Ibn al-HaythamÕs Optics, known as Perspectiva or De aspectibus, exerted profound influence on 13th-century European thinkers and circulated with other optical writings such as PtolemyÕs Optica, which became available in Latin around the same time. The present work includes a concordance of the Arabic and Latin texts as well as glossaries and a manuscript index. ¥ Volume I. English translation ¥ Volume II. Introduction, commentary, glossaries, concordance, indices ISBN 0854810722.

1894, London, John Browning, third edition, pp48, black and white illustrations, printed wrappers. First edition was 1878, second edition was 1883 in green cloth with colour frontis. OCLC locates Cornell, Kansas, Switzerland for this edition. Covers grubby, otherwise very good.