Experimental Optics, First Edition (10 results)

1st edition. Octavo, red cloth, xii, 203 pp. Illus. Very Good; spine slightly faded, former-owner signature. Science, Astronomy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Name stamp. Three-inch tear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Being a Series of Simple and Brilliant Experiments with Light, and How to Make All Kinds of Optical Instruments." First edition, 1933. Inscription inside front otherwise in very good bright condition in a bright price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback book and dust jacket in very good condition.

Condition: New. 2017. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original green cloth spine with brown paper-covered boards. vii, 351 pp. Contains 6 folded plates. Plates 2, 4, and 5 are Very Good. Plate 1 has an edge tear along one crease but not far enough to affect the plae.Plate 3 has minor edge tears and curling of the edges. Plate 6 has a tear along one crease running one-eighth of an inch into the plate. Plates 1, 3, and 6 are Good. There is a light pencil drawing on one rear blank. The book has some foxing, browning, and spotting and is generally Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo. 350pp + errata + 6 plates. Foxed. A good copy in origin l plue boards, Front cover detached spine well worn , chipped.

Condition: Fair. Cambridge: The University Press, 1826. 1st edition. Sm 4to Hardcover. 350pp. B/W folding plates at rear. Poor book. Heavy edgewear. Boards detached, but present. Slightly dampstained. Writing inside. In polypropylene bag. (physics, optics, science, optical instruments) Inquire if you need further information.

8vo, 64 pp., somewhat browned, and with a darker brown waterstain in the upper margins, rebound in boards. First edition; a second edition appeared in 1782. John Arden (1702-1791), teacher of experimental philosophy at Beverley, possibly a graduate from Oxford. Arden taught at the Heath Academy in Wakefield, and moved in about 1750 to Beverley, Yorkshire. He gave lectures at Beverley, Birmingham and other towns before moving to Bath, where he continued to teach and lecture for many years. His son James Arden, lecturer (c. 1739-1817), edited and printed this analysis at the request of subscribers to the course "knowing that my father was too engaged in business to comply with those requests." Both editions are rare; the ESTC locates copies of this one at BL, Oxford Museum of the History of Science, Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Smithsonian.

Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, 2 volumes, issued three years apart. 119pp.; 101pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean set, bound in the publisher's blue cloth. Volume I is mostly unopened. That same volume has an applealing early 20th century bookplate and owner's name to the front paste-down. FFEP and title page in Volume I also have a repaired tear. Corners gently rounded on both volumes, but there is little wear to the extremities. Overall very good. A very scarce - and complete - early work on the mathematical properties of light.