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First and only edition of an important manual on the construction of telescopes and microscopes, the first publication by Nicolas Fuss (1755-1826), who grew up in a modest Swiss family but was to become one of the leading mathematicians and astronomers of his generation. The majority of Fuss's writings present solutions to problems raised by Leonhard Euler, in the fields of mathematics, mechanics, astronomy and geodesy. Euler's memoirs had been published earlier, but they were inaccessible to most people working in optics. Fuss published the present work, giving a very simple and rather schematic résumé of Euler's work. He listed "a number of formulae for the construction of telescopes with a magnification of five to fifty times, for achromatic telescopes with three lenses and a magnification from 25 to 320 times, and for achromatic telescopes with four or five lenses" (Daumas). Fuss gave all the necessary theoretical measurements for constructing these instruments. It ends with a description of a microscope with an achromatic objective of three lenses.With a small brown stain in the lower outside corner of the last few leaves, a small tear in the gutter margin of one leaf and small stains in the foot margin of another, but otherwise in very good condition and with large margins. Rebacked and restored at an early date.l DSB V, pp. 209-210; Daumas, Scientific instruments, pp. 152-153. Contemporary Russian mottled calf, sewn on 5 cords, gold-tooled spine (with lyres in the 3rd and 5th of 6 compartments, a Greek key at the foot, and other decorations) with red morocco label in the 2nd compartment ("INSTR|P. LES|LUNET") , Dutch-marbled paste-downs, red edges, headbands in green and white. Rebacked (ca. 1810?). With 2 folding engraved plates, a woodcut headpiece, tailpiece and factotum, and decorations built up from cast typographic ornaments. Pages: [10], 83, [1 blank] pp. plus plates.…