Archimedes.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Opera nonnulla a Federico Commandino... nuper in Latinum conversa, et commentariis illustrata. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1558

folio (302 x 192mm.), woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, woodcut diagrams and initials, woodcut Aldine device on O4v and final verso (both otherwise blank), old vellum, lettered in manuscript along spine, title-leaf damaged, restored and reinserted, A4 repaired in gutter, final leaf repaired at head and in gutter, E3-4 replaced in neat early manuscript facsimile, resewn with new endpapers

Literature

Riccardi i, 42; Renouard 173/3; UCLA 448; Censimento 16 CNCE 2318