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. [124] (of [128]), 259 pages; lacks initial blank and leaf after title (beginning of note To The Reader). 4to, 175x131 mm, modern crimson morocco with black morocco lettering pieces; contents toned, margins trimmed entering diagram and last line of printed text on page 133, and early marginalia, title soiled, with early signature in gutter imperfectly inked out, stains in gathering Z. London: Robert and William Leybourn for Richard Tomlins and Robert Boydell, 1651
first rudd edition of Books 1-6; state of title with third line of imprint ending with "at." Dee's preface on the relations and applications of mathematics, which "established his fame among mathematical practitioners" (DSB), is reprinted from the 1570 first complete edition in English of the Elements. Wing E3396; this edition not in Hoffmann. bound with: RUDD, THOMAS. Practicall Geometry. [8], 139 pages. Marginal dampstaining and occasional heavy soiling, contemporary mathematical calculations and scrawls on blank last page. London: J[ohn] G[rismond] for Robert Boydell, 1650. first edition; issue with first word of title spelled Practicall, and with Grismond/Boydell imprint. Wing R2170A.
