Elements by Euclid, First Edition (15 results)

Condition: Good. 1956. First Edition Thus. Unpaginated. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Each chapter paginated separately. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to first page. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges and creasing to spine.

cloth-backed boards. Euclid (illustrator). square 4to. cloth-backed boards. vii, 67 pages followed by 14 plates. First edition. Lacking most of the spine, minor scratches to the boards, 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.

Condition: New. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy sewn hardcover student and teacher edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary. Translator(s): Heath, Thomas L.; Densmore, Dana. Num Pages: 529 pages, diagrams, figures. BIC Classification: PBH; PBM; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 188 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1122. . . . . .

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).

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Elements of Euclid, viz. The First Six Books, together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. The Errors, by which Theon, or others, have long ago vitiated these books, are corrected, and some of Euclid's demonstrations are restored. Also, the Book of Euclid's Data, in like manner corrected. By Robert Simson. To this edition are also annexed, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas and George Palmer for Conrad and Co., 1803. 518pp., 3 plates. Most sources describe this as the first American edition of Euclid, though some talk of a 1784 Worcester, MA edition, which no one actually seems to have seen. Average external wear, chipping, scuffing, bumped/worn through corners. A little dampstain inside covers and to top corner margin of first dozen and last two dozen leaves. Otherwise pages very yellowed/browned with foxing, smudges, creases, minor blemishes. Old note in ink to last page. Plates have some extra-creasing and one has small tears. Old owner name (John Andrews). Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. 'One of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century' [McLean] Numerous crible initials, most text in black, but the text interspersed with a plethora of illustrations, diagrams, figures and symbolic elements printed in 4 colours. A self-educated mathematician and engineer, Byrne '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 substituted a blue or yellow or red section equivalent to similarly coloured sections in the theorem's main diagram' (Friedman). Exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London 1851 with a price of 25 shillings, the work was exceedingly expensive and unaffordable for educators who could have put the new teaching method to practical use. Regardless, it is considered a landmark example of Victorian book production and a technical tour-de-force. Its innovative graphic conception and style prefigures the modernist experiments of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements, The contemporary appeal remains such that the publisher Kroncker Wallis has initiated a Kickstarter campaign to complete all thirteen books of Euclid in the style of Byrne's production. [Friedman, Color Printing in England 43; Ing, Charles Whittingham Printer, 46; Keynes, Pickering, pp.37, 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp.50-51]. Light shelf/edge wear, occasional offsetting and scattered spotting as typical with issue [but much cleaner than most others], else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full brown calf, gilt lettering at spine, marbeled edges. 4to. [i-Jii-xixI-xxx], 1-1268pp. Illus. (color plates).

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: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xxviii 502pp hardback, brown cloth gilt, illustrated in text, English introduction, illustrations in text, no signs of use.

First edition. Quarto (233 x 188 mm). A Very Good copy. Geometric title page vignette and extensive diagrams printed in red, yellow, and blue, wood-engraved headpieces, ornamental initials by C. Whittingham of Chiswick, text printed in Caslon old-face type. Contemporary blue pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, black coated endpapers, edges red. With 1918 pencil ownership signature to half-title. Light bumping, wear, and cockling, front joint starting at foot but holding firm, spine ends a little chipped, moderate foxing to contents, as commonly, minor damp staining to lower outer corner of final leaves, colors still bright. 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 and black, 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 substituted 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.

First edition of one of the most lavish maths books ever produced, with a visual style which presaged both Bauhaus and Mondrian's De Stijl movement. In her survey, Friedman deemed Byrne's work "a triumph of colour printing" (p. 19). Oliver Byrne (1810-1880) had been teaching mathematics for around 15 years by 1847 - experience which presumably informed his use of colour in the present edition. His central conceit was that geometry may be more easily taught if letter labels (Angle A, for example) were instead replaced with colour coding. The result is a work filled with geometrical figures where angles, lines, and polygonal regions are assigned one of the three primary colours. The work was among the few books shown at the Great Exhibition in 1851, where it was widely praised for its beauty and artistry. It has continued to garner praise: McLean describes it as "one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century". These features came at a price, however - 25 shillings, making it around 12 times more than a normal black and white edition and placing it out of reach of most teachers. The technical difficulty of keeping the coloured shapes in register greatly increased production costs, and it was therefore never a viable book for cheap mass-production: by the time Pickering went bankrupt in 1853, almost 800 of the original 1,000 copies were unsold. Even so, its beauty and innovation ensure it remains among the most desirable of illustrated books from the Victorian period. Friedman, Color Printing in England 43; Keynes, Pickering, pp. 29; McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 19. Quarto (233 x 188 mm). Geometric title page vignette and extensive diagrams printed in red, yellow, and blue, wood-engraved headpieces, ornamental initials by C. Whittingham of Chiswick, text printed in Caslon old-face type. Contemporary green pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, dark green coated endpapers, edges red. With 1918 pencil ownership signature to half-title. Light bumping, wear, and cockling, front joint starting at foot but holding firm, spine ends a little chipped, moderate foxing to contents, as commonly, minor damp staining to lower outer corner of final leaves, colours still bright: a very good copy.

COWLEY, John Lodge. An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid, in Seven Books. [4], 14 pp, with xlii ff. plates. 4to., 295 x 240 mm, bound in original boards with a new cloth spine. London: T. Cadell, n.d. [ca. 1765]. Second Edition, improved and enlarged, of this ingenius geometrical primer by John Lodge Cowely (1719-1787?), who was a fellow of the Royal Academy and Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. The engraved diagrams are printed on heavy paper and then cut and scored to enable the reader to fold them into polyhedra, thus demonstrating the doctrines of the 11th, 12th, and 15th books of Euclid. This elaborate book design remains to this day a marvelous teaching tool. In its day it would also have been especially useful to cabinet makers and and all sorts of builders, who could use the models in the book to build simple solids and compound mathematical bodies on any scale. This second edition contains "sundry additions and improvements" to the first edition, "in which the Solids contained in the first and third books hereof, with the addition of their section-planes, are shewn by a new and more expressive method of exhibiting them; the number of irregular solids is also considerably increased by the addition of others, whose formations, far as I know, are wholly new; and the sixth book is made more extensively useful by a farther consideration of the doctrine of planes described in the definitions and propositions of the eleventh and twelfth books of Euclid" (-Cowley's introduction to the Second Edition). Cowley's mathematical textbooks were extremely popular in their day, widely disseminated and well used, and are rarely found intact. As early as 1806 this work was recorded as "scarce" by Adam Clarke in The Bibliographical Miscellany (cf. Sotheran). The present copy, in its clean and untorn state, is rare thus; it was exhibited at the Bibliothèque Municipale de Rouen, Livres Animés exhibition of 1982 (cf. exhibition catalogue by Charles Nicaise, no. 15). Lowndes II, p. 540. Sotheran I, 7670. ESTC 132908.

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.