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Light.- Huygens (Christiaan) Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion, & dans le refraction, et particulièrement, dans l’étrange refraction du cristal d’Islande..., first edition, Leiden, Peter van de Aa, 1690

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Light.- Huygens (Christiaan) Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion, & dans le refraction, et particulièrement, dans l’étrange refraction du cristal d’Islande... first edition, general title in red and black, divisional title, both with printer's woodcut device, numerous woodcut diagrams, some light browning and foxing or spotting, contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, expert sympathetic repairs to joints and corners, 4to, Leiden, Peter van de Aa, 1690.
⁂ First edition of Huygens’ groundbreaking account of his wave or pulse theory of light.

Provenance: from the library of Andras Gedeon [lot 163 in the sale Landmarks of Science & Medicine from the Library of Andras Gedeon, Christies April 23rd 2008]. Various other ink inscriptions and small labels.

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Light.- Huygens (Christiaan) Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion, & dans le refraction, et particulièrement, dans l’étrange refraction du cristal d’Islande... first edition, general title in red and black, divisional title, both with printer's woodcut device, numerous woodcut diagrams, some light browning and foxing or spotting, contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, expert sympathetic repairs to joints and corners, 4to, Leiden, Peter van de Aa, 1690.
⁂ First edition of Huygens’ groundbreaking account of his wave or pulse theory of light.

Provenance: from the library of Andras Gedeon [lot 163 in the sale Landmarks of Science & Medicine from the Library of Andras Gedeon, Christies April 23rd 2008]. Various other ink inscriptions and small labels.

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