Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
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Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1205 EUCLIDIS VI Primi ELEMENTORUM GEOMETRICORUM Libri, in commodiorem formam contracti et demonstrati a GEORGIO FOURNIER, S.J.; with diagrams, 24mo. old calf, 7s 6d —- Parisiis, 1643 1206 ELEMENTORUM Libri XV [et DATA] breviter demonstrati opera Is. BARROW, D.D.; with numerous figures, 16mo. fine copy in old calf, 10s Londini, 1659 EpitT1o Nova, prioribus mendis typographicis nunc demum purgata: Lectio in qua THEOREMATA ARCHIMEDIS de SPHAERA et CYLINDRO, per Methodum Indivisibilium investigata, ac breviter demonstrata exhibentur—2 vols. 16mo. in 1, with numerous figures ; boards, covered with old sheepskin (rare), 15s ibidem, 1678 1208 ELEMENTA GEOMETRICA, Novo Ordine ac Methodo fere demonstrata; with front. by Faithorne, plates, and diagrams, 18mo. old calf, 6s 6d tbidem, 1666 1209 —-——- EpiT10 ALTERA, und cum Nic. MERCATORIS in Geometriam INTRODUCTIONE; with front., plates, and diagrams, 18mo. old calf gilt, 7s 6d © fit ibidem, 1678 1210 ELEMENTORUM VI LIBRI PRIORES, magnam partem novis Demonstrationibus adornati, opera et studio HENRICI CoETSIL; with etched title, and diagrams, 16mo. old calf, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F£.S., 5s Lugd. Bat., 1692 ELEMENTORUM Libri PriorEsS VI, item XI. et XII., ex versione latina FRED. COMMAND- INI, accedunt Trigonometrize Plan et Spheericee Elementa [cura JOA. KEILL], item Tractatus de Natura et Arithmetica Logarithmorum [EJUSDEM AUCTORIS]; with 2 plates, and numerous diagrams (some with MOVABLE SLIPS), 8vo. old calf (title and some ll. water-stained), 6s 6d Oxonie, e Theatro Sheldon., 1715 ee 5 a un excellent traité des logarithmes et quelques autres morceaux utiles qui rendent cet Euclide précieux,’ —MOnTUCLa, 1212 — EDITIO QUINTA, auctior; with 3 plates and diagrams, 8vo. old calf, 8s 6d abidem, ex eodem, 1747 Last and best edition of Keill, who, in his preface, urges the revival of the study of Euclid at Oxford and Cambridge. 1213 ——— ELEMENTORUM LiBRI PriorgEs VI, item XIs et XII™, et Versione Latina FRED. Com- MANDINI, sublatis iis quibus olim Libri hi a THEONE, aliisque, vitiati sunt, et quibusdam Euclidis Demonstrationibus restitutis a ROBERTO SIMSON, M.D.; with diagrams, roy. 4to:., LARGE PAPER; contemporary calf gilt (FINE COPY), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 10s 6d Glasgue, Foulis, 17£6 1214 ELEMENTORUM LIBRI PRIORES XIT, ex Commandini et Gregorii Versionibus Latinis, ed., auxit, etc. SAMUEL [HORSLEY], Episc. Roffensis; with numerous diagrams, 8vo. old calf, newly 1207 1211 rebacked, 6s Oxon., Typ. Clarend., 1802 1215 ELEMENTA, edidit et Latine interpretatus est I. L. HEIBERG ; with diagrams, 5 vols. post 8vo. sewn, 16s 6d (p. M. 24.60) Leipzig, Teubner, 1883-8 The best modern edition. ‘La plus intéressante et la plus correcte édition d’Euclide, scientifiquement parlant, est celle recemment mise au jour 4 Leipzig par Heiberg.’—Loyer. THE SECOND ENGLISH TRANSLATION : 1216. ELEMENTS of GEOMETRY: the first VI Books: in a compendious Form contracted and demonstrated, by CAPT. THOMAS RUDD, with the MATHEMATICALL PREFACE (pp. 96) of JoHN DEE; numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. new brown calf gilt (title slightly soiled); RARE, £1. 5s R. and W. Leybourn, 1651 Kirst Edition of Rudd’s edition, unknown to Lowndes, and the Seconp ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF Euciip, Dr. Dee’s preface was originally published in H. Billingsley’s translation of 1570. : The ENGLISH EUCLIDE: the First Srx ELEMENTS of GEOMETRY translated out of the Greek, with Annotations and Useful Supplements, by EDMUND SCARBURGH, Prebendary of Sarum, with numerous diagrams, folio, old panelled calf (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Karl Stanhope, 10s 6d Oxford, 1705 1218 ELEMENTS, the whole XV Books compendiously demonstrated, with ARCHIMEDES Theorems of the Sphere and Cylinder, investigated by the Method of Indivisibles; never before in English, by IsAAc BARROW, D.D., with numerous diagrams, sm. 8vo. old panelled calf, 836d 1705 ANOTHER EDITION, with Euclide’s DATA, Marinus’s Preface, and a brief TREATISE of REGULAR SOLIDS, nwmerous diagrams, 12mo. old calf, 8s 6d 1714 1220 — LATER EDITION, with SUPPLEMENT, containing some Practical Corollaries deducted from some of the most material Propositions in Euclide [by HENRY WILSON], numerous diagrams, large 12mo. sound copy in old calf, 8s 6d 122 “Dr. Barrow was one of the first who introduced algebraical symbols into the language of elementary geometry, and distinetiy states, in the preface to his Euclid, that his object is ‘to content the desires of those who are delighted more with symbolical than verbal demonstrations ’.’—R. Potts. — ELEMENTS of GEOMETRY, from the Latin Translation of COMMANDINE ; with the Nature and Arithmetic of Logarithms, the Elements of Trigonometry, and Preface, by JOHN KEILL, F.R.S., revised, etc. ete. by SAMUEL CUNN, 7th Ed., with Appendix, numerous folding plates, 8vo. old calf, 6s 1754 1222 ELEMENTS, viz. the First Six Books, with the 11th and 12th. In this Edition, the Errors by which Theon, or others, have long ago Vitiated these Books, are Corrected, and some of Euclid’s Demonstrations are restored, by ROBERT SIMSON, M.D., diagrams, roy. 4to., LARGE PAPER; old calf gilt (FINE COPY), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 12s 6d Glasgow, Foulis, 1756 First Eprrion, beautifully printed. ‘His edition has always held a high character for precision and accuracy, and has formed the basis of most modern text-books.’—D. N. B. FourtTH EDITION, with the ELEMENTS of Plain and Spherical TRIGONOMETRY, plates, 8vo. old calf, with auto. of George Shaw, ¥F.R.S. (1751-1813), 4s Edin., 1772 EIGHTH EDITION, with ELEMENTS of Plain and Spherical TRIGONOMETRY, by ROBERT SIMSON, M.D., plates and vignettes, 8vo. old tree-calf, 3s 6d tbidem, 1791 New EDITION, with the Construction of the Trigonometrical Canon, and Account of Logarithms, by ABRAHAM ROBERTSON, D.D., F.R.S., diagrams, 8vo. hf. calf gilt, 3s 6d 1830 ‘Dr. Simson restored no less than nine theorems to the 5th book, besides the excellent definitions of compound ratios.’ 1217 1219 1221 1223 1224 1225
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