La dioptriqve ocvlaire, ov, La theoriqve, la positive, et la mechaniqve, de l'ocvlaire dioptriqve en tovtes ses especes
By: par le pere Chervbin d'Orleans, capucin
Contributors: Edelinck, Gérard, 1640-1707; Edelinck, Jean, 1643-1680; Coquin, Louis, 1627-1704
Publisher: Chez Thomas Jolly ...; & Chez Simon Benard ...
Published: 1671
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Optics; Optical instruments
Other titles: Dioptrique oculaire, ov, La theorique, la positive, et la mechanique, de l'oculaire dioptrique en toutes ses especes; Theoriqve, la positive, et la mechaniqve, de l'ocvlaire dioptriqve en tovtes ses especes
Notes: "Achevé d'imprimer le dernier de Decembre 1670"--At foot of preliminary page [42], below the privilege. "A Paris, de l'imprimerie de Jean Cvsson, ruë S. Jacques. 1670"--Colophon on 3G2r.

Added t.p. engraved by G. Edelinck after Le Pautre. Publishers' device on t.p. Vignette on 3rd preliminary leaf with arms of Colbert, to whom the work is dedicated (engraved by J. Edelinck), as well as a large engraved historiated initial. There are two in-text vignettes, on p. 1 and 16. The latter is signed by "L. Cossinus" (Louis Coquin) as engraver after the author's drawing, as are some of the 57 plates (numbered 3-60). Woodcut head and tail pieces, floriated initials. Some tail pieces incorporate the initials I.C. of the printer Jean Cusson.

Errata: verso of 22nd prelim. leaf.

Includes index, p. [421-450].

Binding: contemporary marbled paper, vellum back. Page edges sprinkled red. Repair to 3L4.

Plates bound in at end of Getty copy, rather than throughout the text as specified in the "Avis av relievr" (preliminary p. [42], repeated p. [452]). Some plate numbers changed in ink.