Cours Complete Optique

4to. With a total of 73 folding copper engraved plates in the two volumes. First French edition of this translation of Smith's Complete System of Opticks (1738), by Esprit Pézénas (1692-1776). This work, which was largely based on Newton"s great opus, was a "popular, mathematical and philosophical treatise on the principles of light, the properties of the eye, reflection and refraction, methods of grinding and polishing lenses" (British Optical Association Library I, 194).