Elementorum Libri XV.Including: Posteriores libri IX."Cologne" [= Venice], Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1591. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. The title page of each part is set within an elaborate woodcut border, with woodcut decorated initials (at least 3 series), headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, numerous woodcut mathematical figures in the text, large woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank verso of the last leaf of both parts. Later blind-tooled overlapping vellum.
EUCLID and Christopher CLAVIUS (editor). · 1536 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
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[15], [1 blank], 359, [1 blank]; 355, [1 blank], [40] pp.Early Latin edition of the Elementorum, one of the most successful textbooks ever written. The present edition contains the complete enunciations of all fifteen books, and the demonstrations, and has been illustrated wit...