Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362
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Sale 2362 - Lot 276

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BARROW, ISAAC. Lectiones opticae & geometricae. 28 folding engraved plates. [8], 151, [3]; [6], 127 pages, with the geometrical portion bound first * ARCHIMEDES; APOLLONIUS of Perga; and THEODOSIUS. Archimedis Opera; Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri IIII; Theodosii Sphaerica. Latin text; edited with commentary by Barrow. 29 folding engraved plates. [8], 285 [i. e., 185], [5]; [8], 104; 38 pages, including errata leaf and leaf with glossary of mathematical symbols in Archimedes, and with preliminaries to Theodosius bound with those to Apollonius. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, 196x155 mm, contemporary uniform sprinkled calf gilt, top of Volume 2 front joint chipped; occasional toning or browning, marginal foxing and stains on opening leaves of first volume, clean tear in Archimedes plate 14 repaired on verso. London: William Godbid for Robert Scott, 1674; 1675
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first edition, third issue, of Barrow's Cambridge lectures on optics and geometry, edited by Sir Isaac Newton, his pupil and successor there as Lucasian professor of mathematics; and first barrow edition of the known works of Archimedes, the first 4 books of the Conics of Apollonius, and the Spherics of Theodosius, all published here for the first time in England. DSB I, 474; Babson 249; Wallis 358.4; Wing B945, A3621.