Lot 678
  • 678

VITALI, LEXICON MATHEMATICUM, 2 COPIES, 1668 AND 1690

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800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • Two copies of Lexicon mathematicum, comprising:
i. Lexicon mathematicum astronomicum geometricum. Paris: Ludovic Billaine, 1668, FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in one, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, eighteenth-century vellum with numerous blank leaves inserted at end, (Cardinal Stefano Borgia (1731-1804); Bibliotheca Borgiana legatum Collegio de Propaganda Fide, label, and stamp CVPF (Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide) on title, bought from Jonathan Hill, New York, 1987), [T&W V18], browned, name erased from title, misbound at end but seemingly completeii. Lexicon mathematicum. Rome: J. Vannacci, 1690, 4to, half-title, engraved frontispiece, engraved diagrams and illustrations in text, folding printed table, "praemonitio ad lectorem" leaf at end, contemporary vellum, (bought from Libreria Antiquaria Soave, Turin, 1982), [T&W V19]

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Catalogue Note

One of the earliest scientific dictionaries.