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ARCHIMEDES. [Greek]...Opera, quae quidem extant -- EUTOCIUS ASCALONITES. In eosdem Archimedis libros commentaria [in Greek and Latin]. Translated by Jacobus de Sancto Cassiano Cremonensis, edited by Johann Mller, called Regiomontanus, and by Thomas Gechauff, called Venatorius. Basel: Johann Herwagen, March 1544. Numerous woodcut text diagrams and ornamental initial letters. Folio seventeenth-century French red morocco, covers with double gilt fillet, spine in six compartments, each with double gilt fillet panel enclosing small single flower tool save for one compartment gilt lettered, g.e., corners worn, bands rubbed at upper joint, otherwise in excellent condition, lacks final leaf Ii4 with printer's device, otherwise blank. EDITIO PRINCEPS of seven of Archimedes' mathematical texts and of the commentaries of the sixth-century mathematician Eutocius of Ascalon. Adams A-1531; Dibner Heralds 137; Grolier/Horblit 5; PMM72; Norman 61.
Provenance
Richard Mead (1673-1754) "celebrated physician...notable bibliophile" (De Ricci)
James Harris, of Salisbury (1709-1780), friend of Samuel Johnson, author of Hermes, or a Philosophical Enquiry concerning Universal Grammar (1751)
J. Adam, armorial bookplate.
James Harris, of Salisbury (1709-1780), friend of Samuel Johnson, author of Hermes, or a Philosophical Enquiry concerning Universal Grammar (1751)
J. Adam, armorial bookplate.