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APULEIUS.
Metamorphoseos, sive lusus asini libri XI
[
and other texts,
including ALCINOUS,
Isagogicus liber Platonicae philosophiae
in Greek]. 266 [i. e.,
264], [28]
leaves, including final colophon leaf. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 159x93 mm,
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panel enclosing knotwork centerpiece on covers, expertly rebacked retaining original
backstrip; contents unobtrusively washed with slight residual spotting on title, few pencil
marginalia.
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Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, May 1521)
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;
second, corrected state of the title. Renouard, page 91(8); New
UCLA 202.5.
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ARCHIMEDES.
Opera nonnulla.
Latin translation and commentary by Federico
Commandino. Woodcut text diagrams. [4], 55, [1]; [2], 63, [1] leaves. 2 parts in one volume.
Folio, 302x210 mm, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened, chipped at top, with 2
holes over sewing supports, ties lacking; blank upper outer corner of title torn and restored,
light dampstaining in outer margins toward end. Embossed stamps of Richard Grosvenor
Bartelot, F.S.A.
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and second in Latin of writings by Archimedes on measure-
ment of the circle, spirals, quadrature of the parabola, conoids and spheroids, and the possibility
of numbering the sands, together with the commentary by Eutocius of Ascalon. The 1544
Basel first edition in the original Greek included a Latin version by Jacobus Cremonensis.
Renouard, page 173(3); New UCLA 540; DSB III, 364; Hoffmann I, 230; Riccardi I, 42.
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