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EUCLID. Elementorum libri XV. Latin translation and commentary by Federico Commandino. Title within woodcut architectural border; woodcut text diagrams throughout. [12], 255, [1] leaves, including final blank. Folio, 316x217 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, ties lacking; edges stained red, bleeding into blank margins on some leaves, Z1.8 browned, still an attractive, wide-margined copy. Pesaro: (Camillo Francischini), 1572
first edition of this translation, " . . . made use of by subsequent editors for centuries . . . Commandino [was] certainly an outstanding figure in the history of Euclid's Elements" (Thomas-Stanford). Riccardi I, 362; Thomas-Stanford 18 and pages 10-11; DSB III, 364.
