A compleat system of opticks in four books : viz. A popular, a mathematical, a mechanical, and a philosophical treatise. To which are added remarks upon the whole /
Robert Smith (1689-1768)
Category
Books
Date
1738
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3189561
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v.([6],vi,[8],455; [1],171,[13]p.), plates : ill. ; 4to. Bound in one. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; gold tooled spine; gold lettered red spine labe: Smith's Opticks.
Makers and roles
Robert Smith (1689-1768) James Jurin (1684-1750)