EUCLID. Euclides Elements of Geometry: The first VI Books: In a Compendious Form Contracted and Demonstrated. By Captain Thomas Rudd . . . Whereunto is added, The Mathematicall Preface of Mr. John Dee. Numerous text diagrams. [126] (of [128]?), 259 pages; lacks first (blank or license?) leaf. 4to, contemporary vellum with modern leather lettering pieces, covers heavily soiled and slightly warped; margins trimmed entering some catchwords and the letters at bottom of diagram on page 133, scattered minor foxing, diagonal tear across C4 crudely repaired slightly affecting text on verso, early owner's leaf of notes bound between pages 66 and 67, scattered marginalia elsewhere; institutional bookplate. London: Robert and William Leybourn for Richard Tomlins and Robert Boydell, 1651