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ARCHIMEDES. Opera nonnulla. Latin translation and commentary by Federico Commandino. Woodcut text diagrams. [4], 55, [1]; [2], 63, [1] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 302x210 mm, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened, chipped at top, with 2 holes over sewing supports, ties lacking; blank upper outer corner of title torn and restored, light dampstaining in outer margins toward end. Embossed stamps of Richard Grosvenor Bartelot, F.S.A. wide-margined copy. Venice: Paulus Manutius, 1558
first commandino edition and second in Latin of writings by Archimedes on measurement of the circle, spirals, quadrature of the parabola, conoids and spheroids, and the possibility of numbering the sands, together with the commentary by Eutocius of Ascalon. The 1544 Basel first edition in the original Greek included a Latin version by Jacobus Cremonensis. Renouard, page 173(3); New UCLA 540; DSB III, 364; Hoffmann I, 230; Riccardi I, 42.
