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Pappus of Alexandria (circa 290-350 CE) Mathematicae Collectiones.
Venice: Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, apud Hieronymum Concordiam, 1589.
Folio, second edition, lacking initial blank, translated from Greek by Federico Commandino (1506-1575), title page with woodcut printer's device, many diagrams throughout the text, extensive marginalia surrounding the text of the first theorem in Book V, written in a neat italic hand, in Latin and Greek, black ink; bound in limp parchment, aeg, signature on title excised, repaired with matching paper, contents crisp, 12 x 8 1/2 in.
