Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

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Monte, Guidobaldo del | In duos Archimedis aequeponderantium libros paraphrasis scholiis illustrata, Pesaro, 1588, first edition

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Monte, Guidobaldo del

In duos Archimedis aequeponderantium libros paraphrasis scholiis illustrata. Pesaro: Girolamo Concordia, 1588


First edition of del Monte's commentary on Archimedes, containing the former's own influential treatise on centres of gravity.


Folio (297 x 204 mm). Title-page with woodcut vignette, woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials and printer's ornaments, final leaf with errata and colophon, some marginalia in two hands; title-page soiled and reattached at inner margin with two small wormholes, minor worming at margins of a few other gatherings. Modern vellum, red edges; endleaves renewed


REFERENCES

Adams U-6; Riccardi ii, 179; USTC 826167; Edit16 CNCE 16715

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