Dissertação sobre as cores primitivas: [Dissertacao sobre as cores primitivas] com hum breve tratado da composição artificial das cores
Lisboa: Regia Officina Typografica, MDCCLXXXVII [1788]. First edition. In later paper. [I]–X [1]–148 [4] p., and two folding plates (one coloured by contemporary hand). First edition of Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo’s important treatise on colour theory which influenced Goethe’s famous work, Zur Farbenlehre. In his 1788 book, the..... More