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Sale 2348 - Lot 227

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EUCLID. Elementorum geometricorum libri XV [with Phaenomena, Optica, Catoptrica, Data, and De levi et ponderoso]. Latin translation by Giovanni Campano da Novara and Bartolomeo Zamberti; with the commentaries of Theon, Hypsicles, Marinus, and Campano. Preface by Philipp Melanchthon. Woodcut text diagrams throughout. [8], 587, [1] pages. Folio, 305x200 mm, contemporary London binding of blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, covers decorated with panel formed by ornamental roll enclosing lozenge of the same, vellum pastedowns from 15th-century manuscript of an unidentified Latin chronicle in anglicana hand, flyleaves from contemporary edition of Galen, De compositione medicamentorum, top spine compartment, bottom of spine, and upper outer corner of front cover expertly restored, catches and clasps lacking; light marginal dampstaining through most of volume, repairs in blank outer margin of title, next leaf, and last 9 leaves. Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1546
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Second collected edition in Latin of the writings of Euclid, reprinted from Herwagen's 1537 edition, which had contained the first appearance of the extant lesser works apart from the text on the division of geometrical figures surviving only in Arabic, and those of questionable authorship on music. Herwagen published the first edition of the Elements in the original Greek in 1533. Adams E975; Hoffmann II, 42; Thomas-Stanford 11; Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Bindings 866 ("1546-69").