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38000 SEK

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10 000-12 000 SEK

Description

COLOUR THEORY. SOWERBY, JAMES. A new elucidation of colours, original prismatic, and material showing their concordance in three primitives, yellow, red and blue ... with some observations on the accuracy of Sir Isaac Newton. London (Richard Taylor & Co.) 1809.

Large 4to (300x237 mm.). (4), (1)-51, 1 blank, (2, advertisment) pp. 7 engraved plates, all but one hand-coloured (complete, some finger-soiling and minor spotting to margins, text with some foxing mostly marginal).
Untrimmed as issued in original boards, worn and rubbed, damages to corners, lacking spine, inner joint reinforced with paper tape. Endpaper with small paper loss. Partly loose in binding.

First edition of this rare work where Sowerby presents a theory of colour being composed of three basic colours, red, yellow and blue.
James Sowerby (1757-1822), English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist.

Provenance: The consigners´ family is related to James Sowerby (1757-1822) through their great grandmother, who was the daughter Charlotte Ann Sowerby (Lottie), later married Bryant. The family´s grandmother later bought this work in London in the 1920´s.

Auktionsnummer:

6188

Date:

2019-06-14