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Euclid's Elements 1661 with portrait

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Title: Euclid's Elements of Geometry. In XV. books: with a supplement of divers propositions and corollaries. To which is added, a treatise of regular solids, by Campane and Flussas. Likewise Euclid's data: and Marinus his preface thereunto annexed. Also a treatise of the divisions of superficies, ascribed to Machomet Bagdedine, but published by Commandine, at the request of John Dee of London; whose preface to the said treatise declares it to be the worke of Euclide, the author of these Elements. Published by the care and industry of John Leeke and George Serle, students in the mathematicks
Author: Euclid
Description: [50 (incl. initial blank)], 207, [1], 177-610, 613-650, [2] pp. [blank leaf], *2, A4(-A4), a-e4, A-Z4, A-C4, Aa-Yy4, Zz1, Aaa-Iiii4, Kkkk-Tttt2. Copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Euclid; folding table; geometric diagrams throughout. (folio) 11½x7½, modern half calf & marbled boards, new endpapers. Third complete edition in English.Important early English edition of Euclid's Elements, including John Dee's preface, and the first printing in English of the Treatise of the Divisions of Superficies (originally printed in Latin and Italian editions in 1570). Also, the first printing in English of Euclid's Data. Complete with the final errata leaf at end, which is laid on backing sheet, with some loss affecting a few words; ms. leaf of geometric equation, in early hand, inserted between pp. 24 and 25. Wing E3398.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Printed, by R. & W. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge at the Bible upon Ludgate-hill
Date Published: 1661