[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce Greek & Latin ed. of Euclid. Paris: 1598

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Euclid. ELEMENTORUM LIBRI XV GRAECE & LATINE... Paris: Viduan Guilielmi Cavellat. 1598. 8vo. 350,(2)pp. Greek & Latin. Text profusely illustrated with woodcut diagrams. Title with woodcut printer's device, and vero of final leaf with full page woodcut device. Orig. limp vellum, somewhat soiled. At top of title is an early inscription, "Ad usum Carmelitarum Cabilonensium," i.e., from the monastery in Chalons-sur Saone. Housed in a fine quarter red-morocco clamshell case.    $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)

A very scarce Greek & Latin edition of THE ELEMENTS, edited by Stephanus Gracilis. See Thomas-Stanford EARLY EDITIONS OF EUCLID'S ELEMENTS #24. Adams E1002.Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
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