[Rarebooks] FS: The first French geometry. Paris: 1547

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(MATHEMATICS) Bovillus, Carolus (or, Bouvelles, Charles de). GEOMETRIE 
PRACTIQUE… Nouvellement par Luy Reveue, Augmentee & Grandement Enrichie. Paris: 
Regnaud Chaudiere & Claude son filz. 1547.Sm. 4to. ff.70. Woodcut printer’s device 
on title; title within an ornate typographical border. Text illus. with 
numerous woodcuts & diagrams. Bound in later vellum, leather label on spine. Some 
marginal dampstains, but overall a very good copy of a very scarce book.     
$5,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second enlarged edition of the first French language geometry text. It is 
particularly important for the added material in chapters VII & VIII which 
deal with proportion, the geometrical forms of the letters and geometry applied 
to astronomy and astrology. Mortimer, Harvard French #115 (the first ed. of 
1542). Not in Adams.

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