Monumenta Omnia Mathematica, quae extant…ex traditione…Francici Maurolici

by Archimedes

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First edition

Woodcut printer’s device on title, numerous woodcut illus. in the text, & a woodcut vignette on verso of final leaf. Title printed in red & black. 4 p.l., 296 pp. Folio, cont. vellum over boards first four leaves with some light browning & staining . Palermo: C. Hesperi, 1685. First edition of Maurolico’s important edition of Archimedes’ works, based upon an earlier partial edition by Borelli Messina: 1670-72 , which was almost completely lost.

• Binding: Leather

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