The Elements of Euclid, viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. by [Euclid] Simson, Robert

Edinburgh: printed for E. Wingrove, London, and E. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1799. 8vo. pp. [vii] [1] 9-520 + 3 folding plates. Intermittent light water stain to lower or outer blank margin, slight spotting to title and verso of last, endpapers adhering a little at gutter of title and last. Contemporary sheep, rebacked, spine blind tooled. A little loss to lower board, recornered. The tenth edition of Simson's fundamental English edition of Euclid. 'No man seems to have done more towards the restoration of Euclid's genuine works than Dr Simson of Glasgow' (Bruggermann 197-200). Appended to the traditional content - Euclid's books 1-6, 11 and 12, and 'Euclid's Data' - is here also, for the first time, 'Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry', illustrated with three folding plates. ESTC N9135. Not in Dibdin or Brunet.