Euclid, Elementorum geometricorum libri XV, Basel, 1546, old vellum

Euclid

Elementorum geometricorum libri XV, cum expositione Theonis in priores XIII... Campani in omnes, & Hypsiclis Alexandrini in duos postremos. His adiecta sunt Phaenomena, Catoptrica & Optica, deinde Protheoria Marini & Data, postremum vero, Opusculum de Levi & Ponderoso, hactenus non visum, eiusdem autoris. Basel: Johannes Herwagen, (August) 1546

folio (310 x 205mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams, old semi-limp vellum, two obscured ink stamps at foot of title-page, some staining throughout, foredge slightly water-damaged, lacking two pairs of alum-tawed ties

A reprint of Herwagen's 1537 edition, itself based on Zamberti's new Latin translation, printed in 1505; it was only superseded by Federico Commandino's translation in 1573. The lengthy preface by Melanchthon was often censored and removed but is present in this copy.

LITERATURE

Steck III.46; VD16 E 4155