Lot 844
844
EUCLIDES -- FINÉ, O. In sex priores libros geometricorum elementorum Euclidis Megarensis demonstrationes. Par., S. de Colines, 1536. (8), 174 pp., 1 blank leaf. W. ti. printed within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials, woodcut headpieces and diagrams. Fol. Cont. limp vellum. (Vellum stained and w. small defects and repairs, name entry scratched out on ti-p., small burn mark on ti., lower blank margin wormholed at the beginning and upper blank margin at the end).
Rare first edition of Finé's commentary on problems posed by Euclid, using the Latin translation of Bartolommeo Zamberti. - Renouard, Colines, p. 262-64; Mortimer, Harvard Coll., 215; Thomas-Stanford 8; Brunet II, 1089. Adams & Hoffmann only mention the second edition of 1544. Not in NCC.€ 1200
result € 1800
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