Early Editions Of Euclid's Elements
by Thomas-Stanford, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0915346303
- ISBN 13
- 9780915346301
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 134 Copies containing an original leaf from the 1482 Ratdolt edition (Venice, the first complete edition). The leaf (with 8 geometrical figures, and four elaborate printed intitials ) is in good antiquarian condition. There are two identical very small circular holes in the right and lower margins, which may have been used for registration when printing the geometrical figures. Binding: black cloth, with gilt geometrical figure stamped on front cover, and gilt author and title stamped on spine. Book is in fine condition, free of all marking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Sky Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4746
- Title
- Early Editions Of Euclid's Elements
- Author
- Thomas-Stanford, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0915346303
- ISBN 13
- 9780915346301
- Publisher
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
- Date Published
- 1977
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...