ARCHIMEDES. Archimedis de iis quae vehuntur in Aqua Libri Duo. Bologna, Alessandreo Benacci, 1565
4to, mm. 200x140; Nice full calf binding, perfect imitation of the 16th cent., golden ornaments on the sides with plant motifs, spine with 4 ribs; ll. [4], 43 [i.e. 45], [1 b.]; Illustrated initials, round and Italic type, many geometric figures within the text. Stamp of the library extinct at the Title page. Signs of wear in the titlepage and slight sign of dampstain on the edge of the first sheet, fine copy.

First edition with the comment of Commandino. In this version of the first treatise of hydrostatic Commandino corrects and fills in the gaps of the Latin translation made by the Flemish Willem Moerbeke in 1269, and uses its own translation of other works of Archimedes appeared in 1558. His precise comment is much wider of the original text Archimedean. This edition of Commandino remained the reference until the early twentieth century and the work of Heiberg after the discovery of the Archimedes palimpsest. D.B.I .: "Edition really excellent."Adams, in 1533; Riccardi, I, 42- 5; Honeyman 131; D.B.I., XXVII, p. 604.