Euclid | La prospettiva ... tradotta dal R. P. M. Egnatio Danti ... con la Prospettiva di Eliodoro Lariseo, Florence, 1573, an early edition of Euclid's Optica

Euclid

La prospettiva ... tradotta dal R.P.M. Egnatio Danti ... con la Prospettiva di Eliodoro Lariseo. Florence: Stamperia de' Giunti, Florence, 1573

Early edition of Euclid's Optica, the first vernacular edition of Danti's annotated translation. The second and third parts are the text of Heliodorus of Larissa (also known as Damianus) in Italian, Greek and Latin, published here for the first time.

Three parts in one volume, small 4to (198 x 140 mm). Woodcut device on first title, diagrams in part I, parallel Greek and Latin text in part II; first word of title shaved, occasional headline shaved, Q3 with long tear in text, gathering B shaken. Nineteenth-century patterned paper boards; spine slightly soiled.

REFERENCES

Riccardi I, p. 391; USTC 828479; Edit16 CNCE 18359

PROVENANCE

Faded early modern ownership inscription to title-page