R2,000 - R3,000
EUKLID'S ELEMENTE (GERMAN TRANSLATION)
Johann Freidrich Lorenz
Halle: Waisenhaus Buchhandlung, 1798
8vo (20,2 x 12,5 x 1,5cm) xxii + 206pp. Original beige hardcover binding. With various diagrams throughout.
An early German translation of the first 6 and 11th and 12th books of Euclid, by Johann Freidrich Lorenz. Published in 1798.
Complete title: Euklid's Elemente acht Bücher: die sechs ersten, nebst dem eilften und zwölften, aus dem Griechischen übersetzt von Johann Friedrich Lorenz. Nach der dritten Ausgabe sämmtlicher funfzehn Bücher der Elemente.
Condition: Good. Small stains and spots of foxing to the boards. Edgewear to boards where they overhang the textblock. Sections missing from top and tail of spine, please see photo. Previous owners’ signatures in pen and pencil to front pastedown and free endpaper. Light foxing and wrinkling throughout. Small stains to endpapers, pastedowns, and to a few pages. Small stains to pp. 33-37, obscuring some of the text. Small geometric drawings by previous owner on rear pastedown, which give the copy a very authentic and historic feel. Overall a well bound copy.
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