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1977137583New York: Exotic Beauties Press Inc 1977. First edition. Softcover. Anthology of poems printed in an edition of 1000 copies that includes works by Susann Rossi Dalton Linda Anne Hoag Susan Frantz Hoover Tessa Marquis and Elizabeth Alexandria Smith. A tight very good plus copy in wrappers that are lightly rubbed. Exotic Beauties Press, Inc unknown books
1981041448Ramsey NJ: Paulist Press 1981. Translation and itnroduction by David Winston. xxi 425p. stiff wrappers The classics of Western spirituality. Paulist Press unknown books
19791328001Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1979. Hardcover. 16mo; First printed 1913 Reprinted 1979; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green with black and white print; DJ has small tears at spine ends and flap corners mild edgewear light shelfwear; Boards in green cloth with gold print mild wear to corners and spine caps but clean and strong; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf else clean and tight; Text in Greek and English on facing pages; 567 pages 8 pages publisher catalog. 1328001. FP New Rockville Stock. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1981048749Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London William Heinemann 1981. With an English translation by F> H. Colson and G. H. Whitaker. xxxvi 483 1p. original green cloth The Loeb classical library 226. Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann unknown books
20119024561New York: Scribner 2011. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper covered boards. Rubbed edges of dust jacket. <br/><br/> Scribner hardcover books
19981329417Como: Edizioni New Press 1998. Softcover. Octavo; VG-; Paperback; Spine brown with black print; Cover is clean and bright but for mild crease to rear top corner; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf else clean and tight; Text in Greek and Italian on facing pages commentary/notes in Italian; 270 pages. 1329417. FP New Rockville Stock. Edizioni New Press unknown books
1988159601988. Softcover. VG. Black wraps. 36 pp. 4 color 12 bw plates. unknown books
1336934Hardcover. 32mo; Fair; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print on red banner raised bands; Boards in brown leather with gold print wear/tattering to spine caps and corners leather on spine cracking front hinge torn from top mild scuffing slight stains; Text block has red tinted edges names in ink on front endpapers cracked hinges front and rear lacks title page stains to spine edge of initial pages and occasional pages within occasional foxing marginal ink notation throughout pp. 704-712 have portion torn away rear endpapers torn out; Text in Latin; Publisher and date information lacking; 1011 pages unpaged index. 1336934. FP New Rockville Stock. hardcover books
19981329186Genève: Librairie Droz 1998. Softcover. Octavo; VG-; Paperback; Spine cream with black print; Cover has slight edgewear stray mark across front; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf else clean and tight; Text in French; xviii 459 pages. 1329186. FP New Rockville Stock. Librairie Droz unknown books
1833257106Washington D.C.: Globe Office 1833. Signed by Hardin ordering 1000 and by Gorham Parker for 100 and 16 others. 2pp. 1 vols. 4to. Old folds. Some stains. Signed by Hardin ordering 1000 and by Gorham Parker for 100 and 16 others. 2pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Alexandria Canal was major significance for water transportation into Virginia. Hardin was an important Kentucky politician who serves several terms in the Houise of Reps. and led the way for the passage of the bill for construction of the canal. The canal connected the city of Alexandria to Georgetown in the District of Columbia. Globe Office unknown books
17099432Cambridge: A. & J. Churchill 1709. Full calf. Very good. 8vo. 30xlii46721pp. Index. Text in Greek & Latin. Orig. calf gilt spine. Hinges starting but quite sound. A. & J. Churchill unknown books
1682PW1341London:: Printed by M. Flesher for Thomas Fickus 1682. 1682. 8vo. 54 166 pp. Original calf boards rebacked with calf new endleaves; small tear to lower corner of p. 165 far from text block. Signed by Alfred Keene 1839. First English edition. This is one of the first books Norris published. "Norris John 1657–1712 Church of England clergyman and philosopher was born on 2 January 1657 at Collingbourne Kingston Wiltshire the third surviving child of John Norris bap. 1614 d. 1682 and his wife Elizabeth d. 1696. His father was vicar of Collingbourne Kingston under the Commonwealth and he moved to the living of Aldbourne Wiltshire in 1660. Norris was educated at Winchester College and entered Exeter College Oxford in 1676. A keen student at both Winchester and Oxford he early abandoned his inherited Calvinism and concentrated his reading on Platonist authors. On graduating BA in 1680 he was appointed a fellow of All Souls by Archbishop Sancroft on the recommendation of Thomas Jeames the warden during a dispute with the fellows over the filling of the vacancies in the college. Norris always retained a great esteem for All Souls and the college in turn erected a bust of h His early writings show him to have been at that time a strong tory and high-churchman but also show that he deliberately turned aside from political involvement. All the writings that he considered to be worth preserving were included in A Collection of Miscellanies which appeared in 1687. im in the Codrington Library when this was built in the following century. . . . Norris's writings have tended to be neglected by historians of philosophy partly perhaps because of Locke's dismissive attitude and partly because many of his theories are so close to those of Malebranche that it is difficult to disentangle their influence. He has been better treated by historians of literature who see his poetry much of which continues to be republished as marking especially clearly the transition from the spirit of the Renaissance to that of modern times. Much of Norris's poetry which has its roots in the metaphysical tradition is somewhat laboured. At his best however he has a lyrical spirit . . . In private life Norris seems to have been a kindly person a devoted parish clergyman and the friend and supporter of several of the learned ladies of his time. In the history of English thought he is a transitional figure. In contrast to the Cambridge Platonists he adopted wholeheartedly the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter. His theory of knowledge was a Cartesian Platonism similar to that of Malebranche to whose more developed theories he was at times too inclined to defer. In the history of English philosophy religion and literature he deserves to be remembered." – DNB. Lowndes The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature vol. 3 p. 928. See: W. J. Mander The Philosophy of John Norris. Printed by M. Flesher, for Thomas Fickus, 1682. hardcover books
16174700Cologne: Sumptibus Antonii Hierat. 1617. Folio 15" x 10". 1254183pp. Double column text. Indices. Title printed in red & black with a large woodcut device. Cont. vellum soiled. Cont. ownership signature on title dated 1666. The Patron Saint of Alexandria Athanasius died in 373. Sumptibus Antonii Hierat. hardcover books
164135424Lutetiae Parisiorum: Typis Regiis 1641. Tall folio 32.7 cm 12.9". 28 854 74 lacking 7579 index pp. some pagination erratic; 823/24 repeated. <br><br>Works of the second-century Greek theologian Clement of Alexandria ca. 150215 reissued from the 1616 Patius printing and here handsomely printed by the French Royal Press. This edition was apparently also issued with the title-page in a different state sporting the imprint as "Apud Matthaeum Guillemot via Iacobaea sub signo Bibliothecae."<br>Â Â Â Â Set forth is Heinsius's edition of the text with Greek and Latin in parallel columns additionally offering the earlier revisions and alternate readings by Friedrich Sylburg; the title-page is printed in red and black with an impressive sailing ship publisher's device while the main text pages are ornamented with head- and tailpieces and decorative capitals.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Title-page with inked inscription "J.D. Michaeli" presumably Orientalist biblical scholar and Göttingen professor Johann David Michaelis 171791. Later manuscript notes as below in the hand of the early 19th-century scholar August Neander; his library sold to the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School properly deaccessioned.<br>Â Â Â Â Evidence of readership: Three pages completely covered in Neander's hand with annotations in Greek and Latin tipped in at the front; pencilled marks of emphasis inked underlining and inked marginal annotations in what appear to be two different early hands. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Brunet II 93. Period-style quarter speckled calf and marbled papercovered sides spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label all edges red; final three index leaves only lacking. Trimmed closely in some instances touching headers and often the marginalia; approximately 30 leaves with a finger's-breadth portion of upper edge chewed affecting headers but never text; several leaves with repaired tears or reinforced margins; one leaf with flaw in outer margin touching three letters. Markings as above; occasional small areas of light staining or inkblots one small burn hole and two pages with dripped red wax. => A solid and very readable copy in an attractive recent binding with provenance worthy of note. Typis Regiis hardcover books
164018000Paris: Lutetiae Parisiorum 1640. Folio contemporary blind-stamped vellum. Greek and Latin text in parallel. Moderate wear to the binding from the library of the Bishop of Vermont generally sound otherwise. The Opera of the Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher Philo Judaeus 20 BC-50 AD who blended Greek philosophy and Judaism. Philo used philosophical allegory to attempt to fuse and harmonize Greek philosophy with Jewish philosophy. His method followed the practices of both Jewish exegesis and Stoic philosophy. His allegorical exegesis was important for several Christian Church Fathers but he has barely any reception history within Rabbinic Judaism. He believed that literal interpretations of the Hebrew Bible would stifle humanity's view and perception of a God too complex and marvelous to be understood in literal human terms. "In the Diaspora Judaism was forced to come to terms with Hellenism in a manner that could be avoided in Palestine itself. There was a movement within Judaism that sought to show the compatibility between the ancient faith and the best of Hellenistic culture. The high point of this entire tradition was Philo of Alexandria. who sought to show that the best of pagan philosophy agreed with the Hebrew Scriptures" Gonzalez I:13. According to Charles Duke Yonge who translated this volume into English in the 19th century these treatises prove Philo "deeply versed in Greek literature of every age and description and of considerable skill in the sciences of music geometry and astronomy. It is impossible to deny him the praise of acuteness and ingenuity set off to their best advantage by neatness of language and felicity of expression." French scholar-printer Adrian Turnebe who was both Royal Reader in Greek and directory of the Imprimerie Royale uncovered a trio of Greek manuscripts in the king's library that he used to compile this volume. Lutetiae Parisiorum hardcover books
1647179140Bologna: Per Carlo Zenero 1647. Hardcover. VG overall wear and staining to the white boards text/illustrations/diagrams are very clean and clear with light age toning as expected with age. Bound in simple white boards utility binding only bw illustrated title page 8 103 8 pages bw illustrations and diagrams throughout. Text in Italian. " Aggiontoui dal medesimo Quattro theoremi non men belli. Et il modo con che si fà artificiosamente salir vn canale d'acqua viua ò morta in cima d'ogn'alta torre." - title page translated: Added by the same Quattro theoremi non less belli. And the way in which it is artificially made to rise in a channel of water is dead on top of every high tower. The "Quattro theoremi" p. 87-103--has special title page. Per Carlo Zenero hardcover books
174629152Lugduni Batavorum: apud Samuelem Luchtmans et filium 1746. 2 volumes large folio pp. 12 xl 76 1758 columns; 2 xiii 1 1604 i.e. 1602 columns 44 index; cols. 1515-1516 omitted in pagination engraved frontis portrait of Johannes Alberti signed "F. Decker pinx. 1742. Excudit Samuel Luchtmans. I. Houbraken sculps. 1745" title-p. printed in red and black vignette title device of S. Luchtmans; Greek text printed in double columns with Latin apparatus at bottom; bound without the half-titles in full contemporary calf central panel ruled in gilt and surrounded by double gilt rules and blindstamped borders marbled edges; the whole neatly rebacked gilt lettering direct on gilt-decorated spines; some rubbing at the edges of the covers else very good and sound. Volume II has imprint: Lugduni Batavorum apud Samuelem et Joannem Luchtmans. Volume II was edited by David Ruhnkenius. Hesychius of Alexandria likely belongs to the 5th century B.C. "A Greek dictionary containing a copious list of peculiar words forms and phrases with an explanation of their meaning and often with a reference to the author who used them or to the district of Greece where they were current" EB-11. "He is of the greatest value for the study of Greek dialects and the interpretation of inscriptions" OCD. Brunet III 146. <br/><br/> apud Samuelem Luchtmans, et filium unknown books
156624827Basileae: Per Thomam Guarinum 1566. Folio 33.5 cm; 13.125". 364 pp. 8 ff. <br><br>also bound in Vermigli Pietro Martire. In selectissimam D. Pauli priorem ad Corinthios Epistolam. Tiguri: apud C. Froschouerum 1567. Folio. 6 242 17 ff. lacks final blank.<br>Â Â Â Â Wonderful large folio volume containing the Works in Latin translation of St. Clement of Alexandria ca. 150 ca. 215 here in the second edition as edited by Gentian Hervet 14991584; the first was in 1556 from Isengrin's press. In this edition Isengrin's device appears on the title-page and the verso of the final leaf. As with the first edition this has scholia at the end notes including sidenotes and an index. The contents are Liber adhortatorius adversus gentes qui Protrepticus inscribitur; Paeagogi libri tres; and Stromaton sive Commentariorum de varia multiplicique literatura ad instituendum Christianum philosophum libri octo.<br>Â Â Â Â The second work is Peter Martyr's commentaries on Corinthians here in the second edition. It has a full-page woodcut => portrait of him on the recto of leaf aa6. The printer's woodcut device is on the title-page and there are numerous woodcut initials. The sidenotes are printed in italic while the text proper is in roman.<br>Â Â Â Â Peter Martyr 8 September 1499 12 November 1562 was an Italian theologian who began his religious life as an Augustinian friar converted to the Protestant cause was closely associated on the continent with Ochino Bucer and some prominent Lutherans and while in England where he held the Regius Chair of Divinity at Oxford was an intimate of Thomas Cranmer and Bishop Jewel.<br>Â Â Â Â Both works are uncommon in these editions in the U.S.: We locate three institutions reporting ownership of the first title and three totally different institutions owning the Vermigli.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary alum-tawed pig over wooden boards with bevelled edges and metal and leather clasps; one clasp perished. Leather tooled elaborately in blind using a variety of rolls and fillets including one roll incorporating the date 1546 a medallion of David and his harp and another medallion depicting John the Baptist with the words below the image "Ecce Agnus Dei. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Clement: VD16 C4070; Index Aurel. 104.903; Adams C2106. Vermigli: VD16 B5054; Adams M788. Bound as above. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown small blind pressure- not perf. stamp on title-page and remnant of charge pocket at rear; six-digit number stamped in lower margin of one leaf. Early inked ownership indicia on title-page and old private ownership stamp on front free endpaper; a little old marginalia and underlining. A very little foxing and the odd spot only. => Excellent copies of both works in a handsome contemporary binding. Per Thomam Guarinum hardcover books
151919915Parisiis: Joanne Paruo i.e. Jean Petit 1519. Folio extra. 6 255 66 ff. <br><br>also bound in: Basil Saint Bishop of Caesarea. Basilii Magni Caesariensium in Cappadocia Antistitis sanctissimi opera plane diuina variis e locis sedulo collecta: & accuratione ac impensis Iodici Badii Ascesii recognita & coimpressa quorum index proxima pandetur charta. Paris: Venundantur eidem Ascensio i.e. Badius Ascensius 1520. Folio extra. 10 178 ff.<br>Â Â Â Â Two editions of Church Fathers from two scholar/printer presses. St. Athanasius's text was translated into Latin by three noted Renaissance scholars edited by Nicholas Beraldus and has the added prestige of apparatus by Erasmus. The title-page is printed with a four-piece woodcut border with the title in red and black and bears the famous Petit printer's device. => The text enjoys handsome typography side- and shouldernotes and large woodcut initials.<br>Â Â Â Â The works of St. Basil is from Badius Ascensius's press and he acted as the editor the translators having been Johannes Argyropoulos Georgius Trapezuntius and others. The title-page uses the same four-part woodcut title-page border as found on the St. Athanasius bound in at the front which makes much sense given the familial relationship between Ascensius and Petit. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Athanasius: Index Aurel. 109.388; Moreau II 1982. Basil: Index Aurel. 114.440; Renouard Ascensius II 145/146; Moreau II 2246. Alum-tawed pigskin elaborately tooled in blind over wooden boards with metal and leather clasps; binding dust-soiled with one clasp perished head pulled one corner tip broken off small hole in leather on rear board. Inside some early marginalia and underlining in red; narrow arc of old light waterstaining to fore-edges of one part. Pages generally very clean. Joanne Paruo [i.e., Jean Petit] hardcover books
1521D6762Haguenau: Thomas Anshelm Badensis December 1521. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 319 x 203mm. Signatures: a-z in 8s; A-B in 6s. Double column numbered to 776 text in Greek. Woodcut initial beginning letter A. Large woodcut printers device on final leaf by Hans Baldung Grien d.1545 German artist and printmaker is called one of his best works Butsch I p. 48 pl. 75. Period limp vellum neatly rebacked remnants of old index tabs; light staining or wear with use otherwise very good. Few instances of marginalia in Greek mostly in letter A; Armorial bookplate of Reverend William B. Hayne Master of the free grammar school of Hinton Maurice in Devon; sold by Thomas Baker to Cuthbert H. Turner 1860-1930 English ecclesiastical historian and Biblical scholar his ownership inscription dated 1919 Magdalen College Oxford; John Waynflete Carter 1905-1975 English author diplomat and book collector his book label on front pastedown; BL early emblematical bookplate on front pastedown; gilt monogram on covers CML. <br/><br/>First edition printed in a German speaking country of Hesychius Lexicon of obscure Greek words this copy with an interesting scholarly provenance. First Edition printed in a German-speaking country correcting the Aldine edition of 1514. The Lexicon suffered substantial alterations including abridgements and additions on its way from the author to the only surviving manuscript of the fifteenth century. This production gives all-important information about the manuscript and the work of earlier scholars. Hesychius of Alexandria lived in the fifth century A.D. and compiled this dictionary of unusual or difficult Greek words with explanations in Greek. Approximately 51000 entries make it the richest surviving Greek lexicon compiled until the invention of printing. Hesychius Lexicon is of great importance to Ancient Greek studies because it contains countless words and expressions from poetry administration medicine and so on that are otherwise unknown or insufficiently explained. In particular this work preserves numerous words from the Greek dialects that are important not only for Greek but also for Indo-European philology. Staikos says A unique source book Hesychius Lexicon deals mainly with words that exist in unusual forms or have more than one meaning that is to say rare words that were not in everyday use. It also quotes a great many passages from lost works by orators poets historians and medical writers. Excellent survival and passed through many learned hands. Adams H509; Staikos I 348. Thomas Anshelm Badensis hardcover books
15882080Pesaro: Girolamo Concordia 1588. First edition. original boards. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of arguably the most important source book for the works of the Greek mathematicians. The magnificent Horblit copy in contemporary probably original boards. Pappus of Alexandria fl 320AD was "the most important mathematical author writing in Greek during the later Roman Empire known for his Synagoge "Collection" a voluminous account of the most important work done in ancient Greek mathematics. Pappus seldom claimed to present original discoveries but he had an eye for interesting material in his predecessors' writings many of which have not survived outside of his work. As a source of information concerning the history of Greek mathematics he has few rivals." Pappus's principal work "was the Synagoge c. 340 a composition in at least eight books corresponding to the individual rolls of papyrus on which it was originally written. The only Greek copy of the Synagoge to pass through the Middle Ages lost several pages at both the beginning and the end; thus only Books 3 through 7 and portions of Books 2 and 8 have survived. A complete version of Book 8 does survive however in an Arabic translation. Book 1 is entirely lost along with information on its contents. Such a range of topics is covered that the Synagoge has with some justice been described as a mathematical encyclopedia. "The Synagoge deals with an astonishing range of mathematical topics; its richest parts however concern geometry and draw on works from the 3rd century BC the so-called Golden Age of Greek mathematics. The longest part of the Synagoge Book 7 is Pappus's commentary on a group of geometry books by Euclid Apollo Eratosthenes of Cyrene and Aristaeus collectively referred to as the "Treasury of Analysis." "Analysis" was a method used in Greek geometry for establishing the possibility of constructing a particular geometric object from a set of given objects. The analytic proof involved demonstrating a relationship between the sought object and the given ones such that one was assured of the existence of a sequence of basic constructions leading from the known to the unknown rather as in algebra. The books of the "Treasury" according to Pappus provided the equipment for performing analysis. With three exceptions the books are lost and hence the information that Pappus gives concerning them is invaluable. "Pappus's Synagoge first became widely known among European mathematicians after 1588 when a posthumous Latin translation by Federico Commandino was printed in Italy. For more than a century afterward Pappus's accounts of geometric principles and methods stimulated new mathematical research and his influence is conspicuous in the work of René Descartes 1596-1650 Pierre de Fermat 1601-1665 and Isaac Newton 1642 Old Style-1727 among many others. As late as the 19th century his commentary on Euclid's lost Porisms in Book 7 was a subject of living interest for Jean-Victor Poncelet 1788-1867 and Michel Chasles 1793-1880 in their development of projective geometry" Britannica. Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit with his bookplate on front pastedown. Pesaro: Girolamo Concordia 1588. Folio 315x220mm contemporary probably original boards; old paper spine label and ink "Pappus" written on spine; "Pappi Alexandrini" written neatly on bottom edge. Soiling and light wear to boards. Early cross-out of early signature on title very light marginal dampstaining to a few early gatherings. An outstanding copy with exceptionally wide margins. Girolamo Concordia unknown books
147766848One of the Earliest Examples of a Venetian Woodcut Border APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA. Historia romana. And: De bellis civilibus. Venice: Bernard Maler Pictor Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Lˆslein 1477. First complete edition of AppianÃs Roman history De bellis civilibus had been printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472. Two parts in one volume. Large quarto 11 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 286 x 206 mm. 131 of 132 lacks initial blank; 212 leaves. Roman type thirty-two lines printed marginalia. Two full-page white-vine woodcut title borders the first use of each border five- and nine-line white-on-black woodcut initials all hand-colored in this copy. Ruled in red throughout headlines supplied in red some paragraph marks supplied in red and blue. Early ink pagination in lower margin. The lower part of c1 verso and all of c2 recto have been left blank intentionally to correspond with a lacuna of one folio in AppianÃs manuscript with a printed marginal note to that effect. Modern antique-style vellum over boards. Gilt spine with brown morocco label. The binding is signed: ìBound for William Brown Edinburgh.î Leaf a2 reinforced at gutter. Recto of first leaf and verso of last leaf soiled some dampstains and light foxing or spotting. Three repaired tears in gutter of final leaf. From the Library of John A. Saks with his bookplate. Early ink signature in armorial medallion of Part I title border: ìRober/ti Koe/nigsman/ni/1627/12 Cal./April.î Effaced arms on Part II title border. Overall an excellent copy. An excellent copy of the third book from RatdoltÃs press at Venice. These volumes represent the earliest example of the use of a fully-developed woodcut border in a Venetian book. RatdoltÃs first border a three-sided simple black-on-white title designed for the Calendarium of 1476 is composed of fairly conventional plants growing out of vases. The borders for the Historia romana and De bellis civilibus by contrast are scrolling white vines and acanthus leaves full and lush black-on-white in some copies red-on-white with a medallion for the ownerÃs arms in the lower edge. RatdoltÃs initial letters which replaced the illuminated or rubricated initials are also of the utmost importance in the history of book-decoration see Hind A History of Woodcut II pp. 459-462. BMC V p. 244. Goff A-928. GW 2290. Hain 1307. Polain 284. Proctor 4367 4368. HBS 66848. $25000 Bernard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Lˆslein hardcover books
399Numerous woodcut illus. & diagrams in the text. 4 p.l. the last a blank 334 i.e. 332 pp. Folio cont. limp vellum title a bit soiled last two leaves with some light dampstaining ties gone. Pesaro: H. Concordia 1588. First edition and a very fine and fresh copy of this uncommon book; this edition providing the complete extant text was the final work to be edited by Commandino and completes his life's work of reviving Renaissance mathematics by making available the best mathematical writings of antiquity. "In the silver age of Greek mathematics Pappus stands out as an accomplished and versatile geometer. His treatise known as the Synagoge or Collection is a chief and sometimes the only source for our knowledge of his predecessors' achievements. The Collection is in eight books perhaps originally in twelve of which the first and part of the second are missing. "Book VII is the most fascinating in the whole Collection not merely by its intrinsic interest and by what it preserves of earlier writers but by its influence on modern mathematics."D.S.B. X p. 293-95and see pp. 294-98 for a full discussion of the contents. This concerns in a passage on Apollonius' Conics the attempt to conceive of the product of more than three straight lines as geometrical entities known as "Pappus' Problem." Descartes devoted a major part of his own Géométrie to this and solved it by the use of algebraic notation. "Pappus' problem thus inspired the new method of analytical geometry that has proved such a powerful tool in subsequent centuries. In his Principia 1687 Newton also found inspiration in Pappus; he proved in a purely geometrical manner that the locus with respect to four lines is a conic section which may degenerate into a circle."D.S.B. X p. 296. Topics discussed in the other books include astronomy and mechanics. A very fine copy preserved in a green morocco-backed box. Rose The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics p. 214"Within 25 years of Commandino's death the first step in founding the mechanics of the seventeenth century was to be taken by Galileo when in criticising the inclined plane theorem of Pappus the Tuscan mathematician adumbrated the notion of inertia. This step was not taken in an intellectual vacuum but represents the culmination of the mathematical renaissance that had been achieved by the Restauratores."& see the whole of Chap. 9 for Commandino and this book. Smith History of Mathematics I pp. 136-37. hardcover books
151766901Editio Princeps and the First Book Printed at the press of the Greek Gymnasium HOMER. DIDYMUS OF ALEXANDRIA. LASCARIS Janus editor. Homeric Scholia on the Iliad. Homeri interpres pervetustus in Greek. Edited by Janus Lascaris Rome: Vittore Carmelio and/or Zacharias Callierges for Angelo Colocci at the Press of the Greek Gymnasium caballini montis gymnasium. Not before 7 September 1517. Editio Princeps and the first book that was printed at the press of the Greek Gymnasium in Rome. Folio 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches; 265 x 197 mm. 172 leaves. Text in Greek. With "To the Reader" and "Address to Pope Leo X" which is dates 7 September 1517 in Latin. Colophon and register in Greek. This is the Longleat Beriah Botfield copy. We were not able to locate any copies besides the present copy at auction in the past fifty years and only one library on OCLC with a copy. Beautifully bound in early 19th Century straight-grain morocco by Francois Bozerian His stamp "Rel. F. Bozerian jeune" at bottom of the spine. Boards tooled in gilt and blind. Spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Boards edges gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers. Blue silk page marker. Two old circular previous ownership stamps on recto of first leaf not affecting text. Stamps are one of which is red and one of which is black are from the Seminaire des Missions Etrangeres. "Pope Leo X Giovanni de' Medici called Janus Lascaris to Rome to found a Greek College in 1513 and three years later it began to issue Greek texts principally edited by Lascaris. The printer was once thought to be Angelo Colocci a rich Roman proponent of Greek learning in whose house the press almost certainly operated but it was most likely Vittore Carmelio Hobson foreman to Callierges first printer of Greek at Rome or Callierges himself Layton. The types were designed by Lascaris cut possibly by Callierges and first used in 1494-96 by Lorenzo di Alopa at Florence to print books Lascaris edited. Cf. A. Hobson 'The Printer of the Greek Editions "In gymnasio Mediceo ad Caballinum montem"' Studi di biblioteconomia e storia del libro in onore di Francesco Barberi Rome: 1976: 331-335; E. Layton The 16th-century Greek Book in Italy pp.323-329; D.E. Rhodes 'The Printing of a Group of Greek Books in Rome' Studies in Early Italian Printing London: 1982 pp.111-113; Barker Greek Script pp.74-75. This first edition of the Homeric scholia on the Iliad has no author attribution although it is sometimes given erroneously to Didymus c.65 B.C.-10 A.D. It was a standard text in the study of Homer and clearly a required text for the students at the Greek Gymnasium." Christies 2002 HBS 66901RSL. $40000 Vittore Carmelio and/or Zacharias hardcover books
3548Cum Commentariis C.G. Bacheti.& observationibus D.P. de Fermat.Accessit Doctrinae Analyticae inventum novum collectum ex variis eiusdem D. de Fermat Epistolis. Large engraved vignette on title several finely engraved headpieces & initials & a few woodcut diagrams in the text. 6 p.l. 64 341 48 pp. one leaf of errata. Folio cont. speckled calf carefully rebacked with the orig. spine laid-down light browning as usual two corners discretely repaired spine richly gilt. Toulouse: B. Bosc 1670. First edition and a very fine and fresh copy. This edition is the first to contain Fermat's observations on the Arithmetica of Diophantus the first systematic treatise on algebra; it also contains on H3r the first statement of the celebrated "Last Theorem" which Fermat originally wrote by hand in the margins of his copy of Bachet's edition of Diophantus 1620. This theorem is the most famous problem in mathematics and remained unsolved for over 325 years until its recent solution by Andrew Wiles. But it should be remembered that Wiles was able to resort to sophisticated 20th-century techniques not available to Fermat. The exact form of Fermat's proof if indeed he had a genuine one thus remains one of the great unsolved puzzles of mathematics. The 1670 edition was published posthumously by Fermat's son Clement Samuel. It is based on his father's annotated copy of the Bachet edition of 1621 and contains a major part of Fermat's work on number theory a branch of mathematics that he virtually created. A nice copy with the extremely rare errata leaf. ❧ Smith Rara Arithmetica p. 348. unknown books
