Biot's important monograph on mirages and horizontal refraction
Recherches sur les réfractions extraordinaires qui ont lieu près de l'horizon.
Paris: Garnery, 1810. 4to (272 x 218 mm). [4], 268 pp., including half-title, woodcut vignette on title, 9 engraved folding plates at end. Original sprinkled paper-wrappers, printed paper-label to spine (paper-label and spine ends partially chipped, upper wrapper partially split towards foot, wrappers slightly creased and corners dog-eared). All pages..... More