Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 303

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
EUCLID. Elementorum libri XV. Greek text with Latin translation; edited by Stephanus Gracilis. Woodcut text diagrams embellished with fleurons. [16], 130 [i. e., 160] pages. 8vo, 167x106 mm, contemporary limp vellum with remnants of thong ties, spine darkened; contents generally quite clean, with only early signatures on title and scattered marginalia. Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1558

Additional Details

first gracilis edition, second issue, with title dated 1558. Thomas-Stanford 30 (1557 first issue).
bound with: FOX MORCILLO, SEBASTIÁN, compiler. Ethices philosophiae compendium, ex Platone, Aristotele, aliisq[ue] optimis quibusq[ue] auctoribus collectum. [16], 296 pages. Heidelberg: (Ludovicus Lucius, September 1561). Scattered foxing. Palau 94113 (not having seen a copy).