On a Periscopic Camera Obsura and Microscope." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 102 for the Year 1812, Part I & Part II, pp. 370-377) by Wollaston, William Hyde - 1801

London: Royal Society of London, 1801. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. Walloston's paper outlines his development of the meniscus lens, a lens when used with the camera obscura flattened the image projected causing less distortion from the actual item being projected.

This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. iii-[viii], [1]-227, [1]-26, [iii]-iv, [1], [229]-420, [11] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.