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EUCLID. Euclides Elements of Geometry: The first VI Books: In a Compendious Form Contracted and Demonstrated. By Captain Thomas Rudd... Whereunto
EUCLID. Euclides Elements of Geometry: The first VI Books: In a Compendious Form Contracted and Demonstrated. By Captain Thomas Rudd... Whereunto is added, The Mathematicall Preface of Mr. John Dee. Numerous text diagrams. [128], 259 pages. 4to, 18th-century 1/4 sheep, rebacked with morocco; contents toned, margins trimmed slightly affecting a few headlines and catchwords. London: Robert and William Leybourn for Richard Tomlins and Robert Boydell, 1651
- Notes: first rudd edition. Dee's preface on the relations and applications of mathematics, which "established his fame among mathematical practitioners" (DSB), is reprinted from the 1570 first complete edition in English of the Elements. Wing E3396; this edition not in Hoffmann.
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