[Elementa geometriae]

Description

First edition of Euclid's Elements.,Signatures : a10, b-r8.,Leaf [2a] has a three-side woodcut border. Geometric diagrams on margins.,Headlines, beginning with the recto of leaf [10],Leaf [2a] (red) : Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi: in artem Geometrie incipit quafoelicissime.,,Hain. Repertorium (with Coppinger's Supplement) *6693; Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent.) V, p. 285-286 (IB. 20513); Gesamtkat. d. Wiegendr. 9428; Goff. Third census, E-113.,Translated by Adelardus of Bath; edited, with notes, by Campano Novarese.,Gothic type, 44-45 lines.,Bound in half tan leather over black speckled tan paper. In a 1/4 brown levant over beige linen box by Robert Patterson.,Bookplate of The Family of Henry Posner.,P230,Condition note: Covers scratched and rubbed, missing pieces at corners; spine, headcap and foot worn and torn on bottom; pages slightly cockled. Scanned 4/2002.,5 8,