The Elements Of Euclid Viz The First Six Books Together With The Eleventh And Twelfth To Which Are

by Robert Simson

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed for Wingrave and Collingwood et al. , 1818. 8vo, pp. vii, 1 , 528; 3 engraved folding plates, numerous figures and diagrams in the text; later gray buckram-backed marbled boards, paper label on spine; the bottom of the first half of the text block is dampstained and cracking, and the corners with small paper loss up to about page 170; all else good and sound. Simson was the foremost Scottish mathematician of the 18th century. His edition of

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