Smith, Cours complet d'optique, Avignon, 1767, 2 volumes, contemporary calf

Robert Smith

Cours complet d'optique, contenant la théorie, la pratique et les usages de cette science... [translated by Pézenas]. Avignon: widow Girard and Jean Aubert, to be sold in Paris by Jombert and Saillant, 1767

2 volumes, 4to (243 x 189mm.), woodcut device on title-pages, engraved headpieces, woodcut initials, 73 folding engraved plates, final errata leaf in volume 2, contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, red edges, plates 17, 64 and 68 slightly stained, final leaf of vol.1 slightly damaged and repaired, title-page to vol.2 damaged at foredge and laid down, quire z in vol.2 slightly browned, bindings somewhat scraped and bumped

Smith's textbook on optics was first published in 1738, when he was Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge.