Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
ARCHIMEDES. Archimedis quae supersunt omnia. Greek text with Latin translation and commentary; edited by Giuseppe Torelli. Woodcut text diagrams throughout. [6], v, [1], xxix, [1], [2], 471, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece and portrait of Torelli. Folio, 421x255 mm, 19th-century marbled boards backed with buckram, cover edges worn; offsetting from engravings, moderate foxing on preliminaries, scattered minor spotting elsewhere, light soiling on last page, contents otherwise clean and bright. Bookplate and signature of David A. Keys. wide-margined copy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1792

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first torelli edition. DSB I, 230; Hoffmann I, 228; Riccardi I, 45.