Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
APOLLONIUS of Perga. De sectione rationis libri duo . . . Accedunt eiusdem de sectione spatii libri duo restituti. Latin translation by Edmond Halley. [10], liii, [1], 168 pages. 8vo, 195x119 mm, later 19th-century cloth, spine ends chipped; some light marginal soiling, title unevenly trimmed along fore edge, hinges reinforced with cloth tape, adhering to gutter of last page, free endpapers lacking. Stamp of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia on title and in text, their bookplate on front pastedown (duplicate). Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1706

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first edition, translated from an Arabic manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Sarton I, 174.