Mathematicae Collectiones. Ed.

by Federico Commandino by of Alexandria Pappus

$25,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

1588. Numerous woodcut illus. & diagrams in the text. 4 p.l. the last a blank , 334 i.e., 332 pp. Folio, cont. limp vellum title a bit soiled, last two leaves with some light dampstaining , ties gone. Pesaro: H. Concordia, 1588.First edition and a very fine and fresh copy of this uncommon book; this edition, providing the complete extant text, was the final work to be edited by Commandino and completes his life's work of reviving Renaissance

• Binding: Leather

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