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DIOPHANTUS ALEXANDRINUS. Arithmeticorum libri sex. Greek text with Latin translation by Wilhelm Xylander, edited by Claude-Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac, and notes by Pierre de Fermat, edited by his son Clément-Samuel. [12], 64; 341 [i. e., 343], [1]; 48 pages; lacks the portrait found in some copies, and the errata leaf. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 343x222 mm, contemporary vellum boards with lettering piece, covers warped, front cover detached, front free endpaper and title loose; occasional toning or browning, scattered foxing and marginalia, blank upper outer corner off title, dark stain in lower margin of 2P4. Toulouse: Bernard Bosc, 1670
Second edition of the surviving Greek text of the 3rd-century A.D. work on algebra by Diophantus, first published in 1621, andposthumous first edition of fermat's theorems on number theory in the form of notes on Diophantus. His famous "Last Theorem" is found on H3r. Hoffmann I, 598; Norman 777.
