Elements Euclid by Euclid, First Edition (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. Special order direct from the distributor.

cloth-backed boards. Euclid (illustrator). square 4to. cloth-backed boards. vii, 67 pages followed by 14 plates. First edition. Covers with some uneven age-darkening, else a near fine copy. Well produced bibliography describing 46 editions of Euclid printed before 1600 and an additional 38 fragmentary editions in various languages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. ix, (3), 513, (1)pp. Indices and 10 page bibliography. Parallel text in Latin, Hebrew and Arabic. Green buckram lettered in white with red band near top of spine. Illustrated throughout with geometric diagrams. A fine, as new copy. Euclid's Elements is one of the canonical texts that shaped our cultural heritage. It was translated from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Hebrew and Latin. There is little agreement about the textual history of the Arabic translations. The present book offers for the first time a critical edition of two Hebrew translations of Books III, by Moses Ibn Tibbon and by "Rabbi Jacob". A serious attempt is made to learn from the Hebrew translations also about the history of the Arabic text. The edition of Ibn Tibbon's translation is accompanied by an Arabic text which was probably its source. Rabbi Jacob's translation is compared to the Latin translation ascribed to Adelard of Bath, probably based on the same Arabic tradition. (Publisher) Contents: Introduction. Background : the Hebrew elements -- origins and reception -- The translation ascribed to Rabbi Jacob -- The translation by Moses Ibn Tibbon -- RJ and MIT : independent or related? -- The edition -- Appendix I: The textual hybridity of RJ : examples -- Appendix II: Differences between the diagrams of RJ and I/T for which there is no apparent explanation -- Appendix III: A comparison of the diagrams in RJ that are different from those in I/T with the diagrams in other ?ajj?jian texts -- Appendix IV: Examples of literalism and non-literalism in MIT. Volume 88 in the Brill series "Etudes sur la Judaisme Medieval." (EJM).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Leather-bound, hardcover, small octavo (15.5 x 10 x 2.5 cm.), pp. [4], 380. Signatures: A-3B [sup]4. English text, with diagrams in the text throughout. Bound in contemporary full calf. Title-page enclosed within double line border. Condition: GOOD. Binding secure, however, the joints are rubbed and starting to split slightly. Corners rubbed and bumped. Lacking front blank leaf, else complete. Interior lightly toned, a couple of corners slightly torn away not affecting text, title-page with slightly ragged fore edge. Otherwise well-preserved. Scarce. Notes: An attractive copy in a contemporary English binding of the first edition of this English translation of Dechasles's Euclidis Elementorum libri octo, a paraphrase of Euclid's Elements [according to Backer's Bibl. de la Compagnie de Jesus, the translation was made by William Halifax]. This work covers Books 1 to 6, together with Books 11 and 12, of Euclid's Elements. Another, more common English edition was published in London by Phillip Lea in the same year, the translation being by Reeve Williams. 'Dechales [is also known to have] adopted Galileo's theory of motion, where he introduced several original views and developments. [Wing E-3400; ESTC R21479; OCLC 926232929].

First edition. First edition. Illustrated with 12 plates. vii, [i], 64 pp. 38 editions from the 1482 editio princeps by Ratdolt to the several1600 editions. 1 vols. 4to. Original linen-backed boards. Slight fraying at top of spine and joint Illustrated with 12 plates. vii, [i], 64 pp. 38 editions from the 1482 editio princeps by Ratdolt to the several1600 editions. 1 vols. 4to.

1st ed. - 503 pages. - (Asfar : publikaties van het Documentatiebureau Islam-Christendom van de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden ; deel 2). - Cloth, good+.

Condition: Fair. 8vo, [iv],466,[ii]32pp (21x13cms), recent full panelled calf with title gilt on label, 3 copper plates of trigonometrical diagrams, one corner tear not affecting text (C4). The plates fold out for ease of reference, (creased along the folds and dust marked and creased on edges), has a new ffep. Overall the text is clean.Comments: published by one of the important British Classical publishers of the the 18th Century. Publication of this edition was overseen by Andrew, son of Robert Foulis who took over the firm after the death of his brother, the older Andrew Foulis. The press was already struggling financially during this period. Robert Simson (1687 - 1768), attended the University of Glasgow in 1702 at age 14, studied classics and oriental languages, later pursued interests in mathematics especially of the early Greeks. In 1711 was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University, devoting much energy to restoring and editing the works of the early Greek geometers. His first edition of Euclid's elements was published in 1756, was immensely successful, becoming for many years the standard work, being republished in various editions as late as 1944. Refer to Gaskell "A Bibliography of the Foulis Press", item 648.

FIRST HILL EDITION 1726. Small folio, approximately 220 x 160 mm, 8½ x 6½ inches, woodcut and line diagrams, head- and tailpieces, pages: [12] - title page with recommendation from Edmund Halley on verso, Dedication, Preface, Explanation of Signs etc., and List of Subscribers, pages: [1]-267 followed by Errata, bound in full calf, rebacked in lighter leather, gilt lettered label to spine, gilt rules to raised bands and edges of covers, edges red, engraved armorial bookplate of the Earl of Roden and private library ticket with case and shelf number. Some shelf wear to edges and corners, light rubbing to label slightly affecting gilt, pale dampstaining to top margins, not affecting text, pale age-browning affecting a few pages at rear, neat old ink numbering to top corners of rectos throughout with no relation to the actual numbering, 2 small closed tears neatly repaired, not affecting text, 3 old ink ownership names on last blank margin, occasional small ink spot to top corner of last page, small stain to red edges, otherwise a very good tight copy. See: THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF MACCLESFIELD. PART IV: SCIENCE, No. 736, the copy listed lacking list of subscribers; ESTC T131718. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oliver BYRNE (1810-1880). The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid. London: [printed by Charles Whittingham for] William Pickering, 1847. Small 4to. (9 x 7 ¼ inches; 230 x 183mm). First edition of one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century (McLean). Oliver Byrne was an Irish mathematician and engineer who focused greatly on improvements in educational materials for school children. In this marvelous effort, he elucidated the first six books of Euclid s Elements by coloured graphic explanations of each geometric principle. He designated the angles and lines of geometric figures instead of usual letters throughout the entire book, envisioning such a visual appeal will make it easier for schoolchildren to learn plane geometry. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London 1851, the book was praised for the beauty and artistry of the printing. It was quite unusual of a Science book to showcase such glamour and lavish richness of decorated printing and stands as a true masterpiece of the Victorian era. The book has become the subject of renewed interest in recent years for its innovative graphic conception and its style which prefigures the modernist experiments of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Provenance- Robin de Beaumont, former president of the Private Libraries Association, an authority in Victorian book design and a benefactor to the British Museum, supplied with a note in his handwriting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxviii 502pp hardback, brown cloth gilt, illustrated in text, English introduction, illustrations in text, no signs of use.

8vo, 208 x 120 mms., pp. [xvi], 399 [400 adverts], 18 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, no label; title-page soiled, some text browned. The Scottish mathematician and physicist John Keill (16711721) studied mathematics at the University of Edinburgh under David Gregory (16611708), whom he followed to Balliol College, Oxford. Oxford DNB records that "After developing ways of expounding Newtonian principles by experimental demonstrations in his room at Balliol, Keill was appointed as a lecturer in experimental philosophy at Hart Hall. He therefore offered the first course on Newtonian natural philosophy, and the first reputedly based on 'experimental demonstrations', at either of the English universities." The first edition of this book seems to have been published in 1699.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary half calf single ruled in gilt over marbled boards; compartments richly tooled in gilt, six raised bands with red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt; all edges marbled. Illustrated with geometric title page vignettes and diagrams printed in red, yellow, and blue, ornamental initials by Mary Byfield at Chiswick Press. Very Good, neatly rebacked and repaired at tips, light rubbing to covers. Ex-libris Ampleforth Abbey with their shelf number label to front pastedown and their nineteenth-century purple gothic-style stamp on the recto of the flyleaf; additional monastic purple stamp at recto of front flyleaf and rear pastedown. Contents lightly toned with scattered foxing throughout. Nearly a century before Dutch painter Piet Mondrian took the world by storm with his 1930 painting Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, 19th century Irish mathematician and civil engineer, Oliver Bryne, produced this highly unusual and starkly illustrated Euclidean academic textbook. Celebrated for its brilliant arrangement of primary colors the text is scattered with a myriad of geometrical combinations and complex numerical figures, "the stark use of primary colors was envisaged by Byrne as a teaching aid" in which "each page is a unique riot of red, yellow, and blue, attaining a verve not seen again on book pages till the days of Dufy, Matisse, and Derain" (McLean). It was one of a small number of books displayed at the World Exhibition in 1851, favored for its pleasing and attractive printing style. Unfortunately, costing nearly 25 shillings, the work remained out of reach for the academics Byrne intended it to. The extortionate production used newly invented four color printing methods and subsequently bankrupted the firm in 1853. The work remains a cornerstone of academic textbooks heralded for its graphic elements and is truly a masterpiece of Victorian illustrated books.

First edition. Quarto. Original drab boards, dark green cloth backstrip, printed paper label on front cover, partly unopened. Geometric title page vignette and diagrams printed in red, yellow, and blue, engraved headpieces, ornamental initials by C. Whittingham of Chiswick, text printed in Caslon old-face type. Binding worn and bumped, spine ends a little chipped, 3 cm split to cloth along front joint, rear joint cracked but holding firm, contents heavily foxed as often. The only edition of Byrne's stunning rendering of Euclidean geometry, it has been deemed "one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century" (McLean). Printed in primary colors using four-color printing, Byrne's choice of method was both practical and aesthetic. In addition to creating a beautiful text, "the stark use of primary colors was envisaged by Byrne as a teaching aid" in which "each page is a unique riot of red, yellow, and blue, attaining a verve not seen again on book pages till the days of Dufy, Matisse, and Derain" (McLean). Byrne (1810-1880) was a self-educated Irish mathematician and engineer who "considered that it might be easier to learn geometry if colours were substituted for the letters usually used to designate the angles and lines of geometric figures. Instead of referring to, say, 'angle ABC', Byrne's text substitued a blue or yellow or red section equivalent to similarly coloured sections in the theorem's main diagram" (Friedman). His style prefigures the modernist experiments of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Friedman, Color Printing in England 43; Keynes, Pickering, pp. 37, 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 70.