Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 2,500
Euclid (fl. 300 BCE)
Euclidis Megarensis Mathematici Clarissimi ELementorum Geometricorum Libri XV.

Basel: Per Joannem Hervagium & Bernhardum Brand, 1558.

Third Basel edition, with commentaries on the text contributed by Bartholomeo Zamberti, Theon and Hypsicles of Alexandria; woodcut printer's device to title page and colophon leaf; early signature of an owner named Zuchi on title; illustrated with text diagrams throughout; this copy without the 3-leaf forward contributed by Melanchthon, with stubs left [likely censored by Catholic authority]; bound in full contemporary limp parchment; ties and endleaves renewed; some surface loss to text on verso of title page reinforced with translucent Japanese paper; repairs to spine, new endbands; 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.

Adams E-976.