Euclid

folio (282 x 183mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams, seventeenth-century Spanish limp vellum, early annotations (slightly shaved at edges), lacking +2-4 (preface by Melanchthon; presumably censored), B4-C5 torn at head with slight loss of text, occasional light staining, lacking two pairs of alum-tawed ties

inscription in Greek on title-page (obscured)

IA 165.896; Steck III.33; Thomas-Stanford 9 (stating that many copies have the preface censored); VD16 E4154

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This is the first Hervagius edition of Euclid in Latin, using Bartolomeo Zamberti's 1505 translation, which includes other texts by Euclid, the Phaenomena, Catoptrics, Optics and Data. Hervagius had previously issued the Greek editio princeps in 1533.