Lot 225
Optics.- Peckham (John) Perspectiva communis, edited by Luca Gaurico, Venice, Joannes Baptista Sessa, June, 1504.
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
Optics.- Peckham (John) Perspectiva communis, edited by Luca Gaurico, collation: a-e4, title with large woodcut depicting a master and students, woodcut printer's device of cat and mouse beneath, woodcut diagrams, pictorial and decorative woodcut initials, small and light stain to title, final errata f. with neat paper repair to upper fore-edge to verso, some very light browning, overall excellent, front endpapers spotted and with short tear at gutter, modern limp vellum with ties, housed in a suede-lined navy morocco drop-back box, 4to (295 x 200mm.), Venice, Joannes Baptista Sessa, June, 1504.
⁂ A handsome early edition of this classic work on optics. "The Perspectiva communis was the most widely used of all optical texts from the early fourteenth until the close of the sixteenth century, and it remains today the best index of what was known to the scientific community in general on the subject" (DSB).
Provenance: Bibliotheca Opticoria of David L DiLaura (bookplate).
Literature: Adams P534; Edit 16 CNCE 29560.
Description
Optics.- Peckham (John) Perspectiva communis, edited by Luca Gaurico, collation: a-e4, title with large woodcut depicting a master and students, woodcut printer's device of cat and mouse beneath, woodcut diagrams, pictorial and decorative woodcut initials, small and light stain to title, final errata f. with neat paper repair to upper fore-edge to verso, some very light browning, overall excellent, front endpapers spotted and with short tear at gutter, modern limp vellum with ties, housed in a suede-lined navy morocco drop-back box, 4to (295 x 200mm.), Venice, Joannes Baptista Sessa, June, 1504.
⁂ A handsome early edition of this classic work on optics. "The Perspectiva communis was the most widely used of all optical texts from the early fourteenth until the close of the sixteenth century, and it remains today the best index of what was known to the scientific community in general on the subject" (DSB).
Provenance: Bibliotheca Opticoria of David L DiLaura (bookplate).
Literature: Adams P534; Edit 16 CNCE 29560.
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