De Maximis et Minimis Geometrica Divinatio in Quintum Conicorum Apollonii Pergaei

by Vincenzo Viviani

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First edition

Two full-page engraved plates on one double-page sheet, two woodcut plates, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Woodcut of Medici arms on titles which are printed in red black. Two parts in one vol. 8 p.l., 154 pp.; 2 p.l., 154 pp., one leaf of errata. Folio, cont. vellum over boards a bit of foxing . Florence: J. Cocchini, 1659. First edition and a splendid copy of the author’s first book in which Viviani attempted a reconstruction of the

• Binding: Leather

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