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EUCLIDES.- DOU, J. PZN., - De ses eerste boucken Euclides, van de beginselen ende fondamenten der geometrie. Waer by ghevoecht zijn eenighe nutticheden uyt de selve boecken ghetrocken; Mitsgaders de specien in Geometrische figueren als 't maken veranderen 't samen-voughen/ aftrecken/vermenichvuldighen/ ende deelen. overgeset ver... tot vorderinghe, ende oeffeninghe, van alle leergierighe, lief hebbers der selver vryer Conste. Door Ian Pieterszoon Dou, der Stadt Leyden Landmeeter ende Wijnroeyer. ...

Amsterdam, By Willem Iansz. op 'Water / in de vergulde Sonnewijser, 1616. W. numerous woodc. ills. in the text. 17th c. overlapping vellum, with original and contemp. clasp [vellum looped threads on lower covers and 1 [of 2] small bone or ivory bead remains on upper cover. [A8 (A4,5 replaced in 17th c. manuscript), B-P8]. (XIV, [2 lvs. 'Tot den leser', being lvs. A4 and A5 replaced in 17th c. handwriting; page 1 / 2 of the text on A8], 1-220 pp.). (Title page and A2, A3 backed with / mounted on Japanese paper, both lvs. with a few small wormholes mid upper center, loss of 12-15 printed letters on these 3 leaves.). (Quires A, E and F lower righthand margin a small vague watersp.; Quire L idem lower righthand corner a more visible watersp.). Rare Second Dutch edition. BdH Dou, sub 1220 [First ed. 1606] does not mention this 1616 reimpression, only a 1626. Not in Sotheby's Geometry and Space sale April 2002, Euclid section, only mentions one dutch ed. 1647. Sotheran vol. I of the Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica, item 7669 [1626 ed], mistakenly identifying this 1626 as 'The earliest translation of Euclid into Dutch'. Very rare early Dutch edition.
EUR 2500.00 [Appr.: US$ 2715.91 | £UK 2145 | JP¥ 423042] Book number 69

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