EUCLID (fl. 300 B.C.E.)

Lot 94
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Lot 94 | EUCLID (fl. 300 B.C.E.)
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EUCLID (fl. 300 B.C.E.)

Geometricorum Elementorum libri XV. Translated from Greek by Bartolommeo Zamberti (b. c.1473) and edited by Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples. Paris: Henricus Stephanus, [after 7 January 1516⁄17].

First edition of Euclid printed in France, the first printed outside Italy, and 'a typographic masterpiece' (Schreiber). It is a work 'which has exercised an influence upon the human mind greater than that of any other work except the Bible' (DSB). The present edition is the first to bring together the medieval version of Campanus with the Renaissance version by Zamberti, based on a Theonine Greek original; it also contains a Euclidean text by Hypsicles. Adams E-982; Schreiber 26; Thomas-Stanford 6.



Folio (296 x 201mm). Numerous woodcut text diagrams, ornamental and crible initials, opening initial and several capitals touched with yellow and pink (i2r with tiny adhesion patch with loss of a couple of letters, p6 with 2 short marginal tears and some light associated creasing, without blank I10, faint marginal dampstain, heavier in last quire, two marginal tears without loss, one repaired.) 18th-century calf panelled in gilt (expertly rebacked with gilt spine, light restorations). Provenance: a few contemporary annotations to diagrams – annotations washed from title – evidence of bookplate removed.





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