Degli elementi della geometria piana composti da Euclide Megarese, e nuovamente illustrati. Libri VI

8vo (174x109 mm). [12], 338 pp. Lacking the final blank. Woodcut ornament on the title page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. With several woodcut diagrams in the text. 19^th-century richly gilt full-calf (rebacked). Ownership entry on the title page: “Ad uso del P. fra Giannicolò di Bolog.^a applic.^o alla Libr.^a del Conv.^o di Bolog.^a del P.M.R. Prole.”. Some light browning and foxing, overall a good, genuine copy.

Rare edition, dedicated to Giovanni Filangieri by the editor, Stefano Elia, who also translated the text and wrote the commentary. Euclides' Elements was also printed in Naples in the same year in the more successful translation of Pietro di Martino.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\RMLE\034589; P. Riccardi, Saggio di una bibliografia euclidea, Bologna, 1887, p. 63; Riccardi, I.1, col. 426.

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