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ARCHIMEDES.
Opera omnia . . . Adjecta quoque sunt Eutocii
Ascalonitae in eosdem Archimedis libros commentaria.
Greek text with
Latin translation by Jacopo da Cremona; edited by Thomas Gechauff. [8], 139, [1];
[4], 65, [3]; [8], 163, [1]; 68, [1] pages, including register/colophon leaf at end. 4 parts
in one volume.
BOUND AFTER
: APOLLONIUS of Perga.
Opera.
Latin translation
by Giovanni Battista Memmo. Title in red and black within woodcut historiated
border depicting ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and authors. 88, [2] leaves,
including final blank. Together, 2 volumes in one, both with woodcut text diagrams
throughout. Folio, 312x212 mm, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, blind-
tooled to panel design formed by concentric ornamental rolls, brass catches, one
catch (of 2); generally bright internally, with dampstaining in upper inner corners at
beginning and end of volume and along top edges in between, few tiny wormholes
through blank upper and outer margins in second half of the volume. 17th-century
ownership inscription of the Glauburg family of Frankfurt (“Est Adolfi à Glauburg
IC, Joannis Adolfi à Glauburg, Jacobi Marquardi à Glauburg”) on the title of
Apollonius; unidentified early 20th(?)-century woodcut bookplate on verso. This lot
is not from the Gutzwiller collection.
Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1544;
(Venice: Bernardino Bindoni for
Giovanni Battista Memmo, 1537)
[30,000/50,000]
HANDSOME SAMMELBAND
,
UNRESTORED
,
combining the writings of the greatest mathe-
matician of the ancient world with one of the most influential texts of early Greek geometry.
