Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 126
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
TACQUET, ANDRÉ, S.J. Elementa geometriae planae ac solidae. Quibus accedunt selecta ex Archimede theoremata.<> 6 folding engraved plates. [16], 368 pages. Small 8vo, contemporary vellum. Amsterdam: Franciscus van der Plaats, 1701

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First published in 1654, "Tacquet's most popular work . . . which went through numerous editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . . . Although little more than a paraphrase of parts of Euclid and Archimedes, the book was distinguished by its clarity and order"--DSB XIII, 235.<