Euclid

Folio (17 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.; 465 x 276 mm). Engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theater on the title-page, a profusion of woodcut and typographic diagrams, half-title; a few scattered stains at front. Contemporary English black morocco, elaborately gilt with small tools to a cottage-roof design, spine gilt in eight compartments, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; joints and corners repaired, covers with a few small patches of light abrasion and repair.

acquisition: Maggs, 1991

ESTC N7071

Folio (17 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.; 465 x 276 mm). Engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theater on the title-page, a profusion of woodcut and typographic diagrams, half-title; a few scattered stains at front. Contemporary English black morocco, elaborately gilt with small tools to a cottage-roof design, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; joints and corners repaired, covers with a few small patches of light abrasion and repair.
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A large-paper copy, handsomely bound, of Scarburgh's Euclide. A physician and mathematician, Sir Charles Scarburgh (1616–1694) was an original fellow of the Royal Society. John Evelyn described his library as "the very best collection, especially of mathematical books, that was, I believe, in Europe." This edition of Euclide was published from Scarburgh's manuscript by his son.