Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/16
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    metrical diagrams throughout in margins and some splendid large woodcut initial letters on ground criblé and many smaller initials. Folio. Vellum. Paris, Henricus Stephanus , 1516. Frs. 200. — Brunet II, 1088. Riccardi II, 646-47: ‘* Raro volume ’’. Rare and early edition of Euclides, beautifully printed by Estienne’s fa- mous press, adorned by admirable initial letters. Published by Michael Pontanus and Jacques Le Febvre who has dedicated this edition to Francois Brissonet. The translation now has been attributed not to Campanus, but to Adelad of Bath, an Englishman. — Insignificant repairs on the outer margins of the first eight leaves, but a splendid copy with extremely wide margins (margins measuring 80 mm.). A master- piece of Estienne’s typographical art. Many interesting marginal annotations by a contemporary hand. vane ees Galilei, macchie solari, 1613; Saggiatore, 1623, nrs. 13. 14.