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PASSEMANT (Claude-Siméon)
Construction d’un télescope de réflexion de seize pouces de longueur, faisant l’effet d’une lunette de huit pieds, et de plusieurs autres télescopes, depuis sept pouces jusqu’à six pied et demi [.] On y a joint un Traité de l’art de faire facilement les grands verres objectifs, les oculaires et les lentilles de differens foyers, avec la construction des lunettes et des microscopes, et leurs principaux usages.
Paris, Philippe-Nicolas Lottin, 1738
In-4 (26 x 20cm), VIII, 132 pp. one folding plate.
Contemporary calf, tight binding, gold tooling on spine. Crispy paper, red cuts.
Ex libris A. Nachet.
Very good condition. Absolutely complete.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION (1738)
AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE TREATISE MADE BY THE FAMOUS PARISIAN MAKER Claude-Simèon Passemant (1702-1769)
RARITY IS ENHANCED BY THE PROVENANCE FROM THE NACHET COLL. LIBRARY
Last pages are devoted to the construction, characteristics and use of microscopes.
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