HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-1894). Handbuch der physiologischen Optik . Allgeneine Encyklopdie der Physik, IX. Band. Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867. 8 o (228 x 150 mm). Wood-engraved text illustrations. (Occasional foxing.) Contemporary half morocco, pebble cloth sides. [ Bound with :] Atlas von elf Tafeln zu H. Helmholtz, Handbuch der physiologischen Optik . Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867. 8 o . 5 engraved plates by C.E. Weber (2 folding), one with hand coloring, 6 lithographed plates. (The engraved plates foxed, the folding plates backed with muslin.) FIRST EDITION in book form of "the most important book on the physiology and physics of vision" (Grolier/Horblit). This work emcompassed all previous research in the field, including the results of Helmholtz's work in optics: his study of colors (see lot ____), and his investigations of the physiology of vision and the dioptrics of the eye, enterprises aided by his invention of the ophthalmoscope (see lot ____) and the ophthalmometer. Helmholtz's introduction to the work states that it originally appeared in three parts, the first in 1856, the second in 1860 and the third in 1866. Horblit describes a copy in six parts published between 1856 and 1867. Garrison-Morton 1513; Grolier/Horblit 49b; Waller 4299; Norman 1046.
HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-1894). Handbuch der physiologischen Optik . Allgeneine Encyklopdie der Physik, IX. Band. Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867. 8 o (228 x 150 mm). Wood-engraved text illustrations. (Occasional foxing.) Contemporary half morocco, pebble cloth sides. [ Bound with :] Atlas von elf Tafeln zu H. Helmholtz, Handbuch der physiologischen Optik . Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867. 8 o . 5 engraved plates by C.E. Weber (2 folding), one with hand coloring, 6 lithographed plates. (The engraved plates foxed, the folding plates backed with muslin.) FIRST EDITION in book form of "the most important book on the physiology and physics of vision" (Grolier/Horblit). This work emcompassed all previous research in the field, including the results of Helmholtz's work in optics: his study of colors (see lot ____), and his investigations of the physiology of vision and the dioptrics of the eye, enterprises aided by his invention of the ophthalmoscope (see lot ____) and the ophthalmometer. Helmholtz's introduction to the work states that it originally appeared in three parts, the first in 1856, the second in 1860 and the third in 1866. Horblit describes a copy in six parts published between 1856 and 1867. Garrison-Morton 1513; Grolier/Horblit 49b; Waller 4299; Norman 1046.
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