Elementorum Geometricorum Libri by Euclid (5 results)
More imagesPublished by Johannes Hervagius 1546
- Hardcover
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, U.S.A.COLLINS BOOKS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good+. Later Edition. 587pp, quarto hardcover halfbound with tan leather spine and corners, gilt title to spine, all edges marbled, moderate wear to book edges and corners with underboard exposed along bottom front board edge and along rear fore-edge, 1.5" dent to lower front board edge, scuffing and wear t…o boards, chipping to leather spine ends, upper half of backstrip separating along rear edge yet remains strongly intact,lower end of first and last pages have been restored,slight gap at front inner gutter yet binding and block remains solid and strong,minor dampstaining at upper rear gutter from pgs.574-587 yet does not affect text legibility, scattered among the text margins are pockets of immaculately inked marginalia in Latin that more complements the text rather than hinders reading it, text remains legible throughout. Book in Good+ overall condition. (DBell).
Language: Arabic
Published by Typographia Medicaea, Rome 1594
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: EQTNA, Leicester, United KingdomEQTNA
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Add to basketFirst Arabic edition of Euclid's Elements, one of the most influential scientific works ever written, described in Printing and the Mind of Man as "the oldest mathematical textbook in the world still in common use today." The Elements stands as the foundational text of geometry and a cornerstone of number theory, unrivalled in i…ts continuous transmission from antiquity into the modern era. No other work of classical science has enjoyed such an unbroken history of study, teaching, and reproduction. Its reintroduction to medieval Europe -principally through the Latin translation of an Arabic recension by Adelard of Bath- epitomises the central role of the Islamic world in preserving and transmitting Greek scientific knowledge to the Latin West. The present Arabic text follows the recension of the celebrated Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274), whose version of Euclid became the standard throughout much of the Islamic world. The importance of this edition has long been recognised: Euclid's bibliographer Charles Thomas-Stanford described it as 'possibly the most remarkable of all printed editions of Euclid. an edition that might belong in a class by itself.' Printed in Rome in 1594 at the Medici Oriental Press -established by Ferdinando de' Medici under the patronage of Pope Gregory XIII and directed by the noted Arabist Giambattista Raimondi- this edition represents one of the earliest and most ambitious attempts to produce high-quality Arabic typography in Europe for dissemination across the Islamic world. The edition is bibliographically complex. Copies are encountered in variant states: some comprise only the first twelve books (approximately 400 pages), while complete examples include all thirteen books (extending to approximately 453 pages). Two distinct title-page settings were issued, one entirely in Arabic, and another incorporating a Latin title (Euclidis Elementorum geometricorum libri tredecim… nunc primum Arabicè impressi), reflecting the dual scholarly and commercial aims of the press. Additionally, a printed firman -a royal decree of Sultan Murad III dated 1587/88 authorising the export of printed books to Muslim territories- was appended as the final leaf, though not issued or preserved in all copies. The present copy is exceptional, representing one of the most complete examples to appear on the market: it includes all thirteen books, both variants of the title page, and retains the firman/royal decree at the end. Large and well-margined, it is further distinguished by its provenance and and preserved in its contemporary vellum binding. Notably, it is among the very few copies that have not been deaccessioned from an institutional library. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Princes of Liechtenstein ("Ex Libris Liechtensteinianis", with the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece), from the library of Franz Joseph II (1906-1989).
More imagesPublished by Johannes Hervagius, Basel 1537
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, United KingdomBarter Books Ltd
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Basel Edition. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Wear to spine. Ties at fore-edge broken. Lacking the first 3 initial leaves [with Melanchthon's preface]. Occasional edge-tearing. Tearing to top edge of pages 295-300 & to inner margins of pages 301-310 (some loss to content). Occasional ink annotati…ons. Sporadic foxing, marking, & staining. Minor worming to top corner of pages 113-128. Some mispagination. 290mm x 210mm (11" x 8"). ii, 587pp. Woodcut printer's device on title page and ep, woodcut initials, headpieces and diagrams. Text in Latin. Later limp vellum with yapped edges.
Published by Basel Johannes Herwagen 1546. 1546
- First Edition
Seller: Martayan Lan, New York, U.S.A.Martayan Lan
Contact seller4-star sellerA genuine and attractive copy of the Basel Euclid in a contemporary binding. This edition contains the whole of the Euclidean corpus: in addition to the Elements in the different versions of Campanus, Navara and Zamberti, the Phaenomena, Catoptrica, and Data, it contains the first printing of the Opusculum de Levi & ponderoso, a… fragment of which was discovered just as the present work's first edition was about to be printed in 1537.
More imagesSeller: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, DenmarkHerman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF
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Add to basketBasel, Johannem Hervagium & Bernhardum Brand, 1558. Folio. (30,5x21,5). Bound in 19th century brown hmorocco with 5 raised bands. Light wear to back and corners a bit bumped. (2),587 pp.Numerous wood-cut diagrams and initials throughout. First ab. 20 leaves with different degrees of yellowing and occasional with marginal faint d…ampstaining. 3 leaves with upper right corners repaired without loss of text. The "privilege" at verso of title partly unreadable as a piece of paper is pasted on, some of these letters are faint, just as some letters in "Basiliae" on title are weak. Last leaf with colophon and printers large woodcut-device on verso is mounted, but not hiding the wood-cut. The word "Basiliae" on last leaf recto, is weak or nearly gone. Overall a large good copy as usually without the foreword by Melanchton. A small rubber-stamp on title: "Duplum Bibliothecæ V.E." and in old hand: "Bibliothecæ Conventij Romani S. Andrea de Fratrij (?)" Scarce third printing of the so-called Zambert-Campanus Edition of the Elements, all printed by Johann Herwagen in Basel - this edition printed together with his son-in-law Bernhard Brand. The first of the Herwagen prints was the famous Editio Princeps in Greek from 1533, and in 1537 he published a Latin version, which became the first Euclid-editon to contain also Euclids smaller tracts as "Phenomena"(Spherical geometry), "Katroptik" (Mirror-reflexion), "Optik" und "Data"(Geometrical excersises). The 1537- edition was reprinted 1546 and in 1558 (the present)."The most famous source of Greek geometry is the monumental work of Euclid of Alexandria, called the "Elements" (around 300 B.C.). No other book of science had a comparable influence on the intellectual development of mankind. It was a treatise of geometry in thirteen books which included all the fundamental results of scientific geometry up to his time. Euclid did not claim for himself any particular discovery, he was merely a compiler. Yet, in view of the systematic arrangement of the subject matter and the exact logical procedure followed, we cannot doubt that he himself provided a large body of specific formulations and specific auxiliary theorems in his deductions. It is no longer possible to pass judgement on the authorship of much of this material" his book was meant as a textbook of geometry which paid attention to the material, while questions of priority did not enter the discussion." (Cornelius Lanzos in "Space through the Ages").Max Steck III:57 - Thomas-Stanford: 15 - Riccardi 1558/3 - Adams E:976.
