Institutionum opticarum partes quatuor
By: conscriptae in usum Tironum a Carolo Scherffer
Contributors: Trattner, Johann Thomas, Edler von, 1717-1798, printer
Publisher: Typis Joannis Thomae nob. de Trattnern
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Vindobonae
Language: lat
Subjects: Optics; Early works to 1800
Notes: First edition; cf. Backer-Sommervogel.

Pagination: Pars 1: 77 numbered pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 5 folded leaves of plates; pars 2: 118 numbered pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 9 folded leaves of plates; pars 3: 59 numbered pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 7 folded leaves of plates; pars 4: 56 numbered pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 11 folded leaves of plates.

Title vignettes; headpieces; initials; printed marginalia.

Special title of part one from page 5 of that part.

Errata after table of contents of the first three parts.

Rare Book copy: Bound with other works by the same author.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, vol. 7, col. 771, no. 24
Table of contents: title: Pars 1. De visione directa; title: Pars 2. Dioptrica de visione per radios refractos; title: Pars 3. Catoptrica de visione per radios reflexos; title: Pars 4. Perspectiva.