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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

New.

London: Corn. Crownfield 1722. (Leather binding) Very good. [24], 330pp. A handsome tooled tan morocco binding. 6 folding illustrations (one is torn along the vertical fold), appendix. The spine has a small hole near the top, there are 3 small square paper labels on the spine and there is a small red sealing wax splotch on the back cover. There is a contemporary previous owner's armorial bookplate on the back of the half-title. In all this is a tight clean copy. Editio Tertia, prioribus multo auctior: Cui accedunt complura nova Schemata aeri incifa. Based on the work of Archimedes & Euclid. Includes Selecta ex Archimede Theoremata; Via faciliori ac breviori demonstrata, [and] novis inventis aucta. Diagrams by Gulielmus Whiston. Text in Latin Language. (Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics).

Basle: Johann Herwagen, 1533. EDITIO PRINCEPS. With woodcut device on title and colophon, decorated woodcut border to first page of text and numerous woodcut diagrams. Contemporary English calf, neatly rebacked, remains of ties, later endpapers. A very good copy.

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482. First edition. PMM 25 - the oldest textbook in the history of science. First edition of the "oldest mathematical textbook still in common use today" (PMM), This book "has exercised an influence upon the human mind greater than that of any other work except the Bible" (DSB). Euclid's Elements is the only work of classical antiquity to have remained continuously in print, and to be used continuously as a textbook from the pre-Christian era to the 20th century. It is the foundation work not only for geometry but also for number theory. Euclid's Elements of Geometry is a compilation of early Greek mathematical knowledge, synthesized and systematically presented by Euclid in ca. 300 BC. Books I-IV are devoted to plane geometry, Book V deals with the theory of proportions, and Book VI with the similarity of plane figures. Books VII-IX are on number theory, Book X on commensurability and incommensurability, Books XI-XII explore three dimensional geometric objects, and Book XIII… Read More