390 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, VV. 



SIR THOMAS MORE'S COPY : 



7625 EUCLIDIS GEOMETRICORUM ELEMETORUM LibriXV ; CAMPANI in eosdem Commentarii ; 

 THEONIS Alexandrini BARTHOLOM^O ZAMBERTO interprete in XIII priores Commentar- 

 iorum Libri XIII, HYPSICLIS Alexadrini in II posteriores, code B. ZAMBERTO interprete, 

 Commentarii [ex Becognitione MICHAELIS PONTANI, Cura JACOBI FABRI] ; handsomely 

 printed, with several fine large woodcut initials, and numerous diagrams^ folio, 

 contemporary rough leather (one board of binding missing, and a small piece of leather 

 torn out ; also wormed, and some II. waterstained on margin) : see note, 21. 



Parisiis, in officina Henrici Stephani [1516] 



AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING COPY, BEARING THE autograph. ' Thomas More ' on the first leaf, and thus very 

 interesting as showing the wide range of Sir Thomas Mpre's reading. The above copy also has the XVIth Century 

 inscription ' Ex dono Arthur! Browne in Musica professoris ' on a parchment label attached by iron band and bosses to 

 the binding. 



ELEMENTORUM GEOMETRICORUM Libri XV, cum Expositione THEONIS, etc., adjecta sunt 



PHENOMENA, CATOPTRICA, et OPTICA, etc. etc., Basilece, Joh. Hervagius, 1537 v. VITELLO, post. 



7626 ELEMENTORUM GEOMETRICORUM Libri XV, cum Expositione THEONIS in priores XIII k 



BARTHOLOM^EO ZAMBERTO Veneto Latinitate donata, CAMPANI in omnes, et HYPSICLIS Alexan- 

 drini in duos postremos : adiecta sunt PHENOMENA, CATOPTRICA et OPTICA, deinde Protheoria 

 MARINI et DATA, postremiim, Opusculum de LEVI et PONDEROSO, hactenus non visum ; with 

 numerous woodcut initials and diagrams, folio, hf. cl. (some II. browned, otherwise a large and 

 sound copy, but wanting as usual 3 II. as below), Us Qd Basilece, Joh. Hervagius, 1558 



The first complete edition of Euclid's works. The above copy lacks as iisual the three preliminary 11., which were 

 abstracted by the clerical censor an interesting instance of the rigidity of Ecclesiastical censure at the period of the 

 Reformation. 



7627 ELEMENTORUM LIBRI XV, accessit XVI. de SOLIDORU REGULARIUM cuiuslibet intra 



quodlibet COMPARATIONE, omnes perspicuis Demonstrationibus, accuratisque Schoiiis illustrati : 

 nunc iterum editi, ac multar. Rerum Accessione locupletati : Auctore CHRISTOPHORO CLAVIO, 

 S.J. ; with engraved titles, and numerous diagrams, 2 thick vols. large 12mo. hf. calf (binding 

 slightly damaged), 8s Qd Romce, B. Grassius, 1589 



The second edition of the celebrated commentary of Clavius. 

 ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S COPY : 



7628 ELEMENTORUM LIBRI PRIORES VI, item XI. et XII., ex Versione latina FRED. COMMAND- 



INI, accedunt Trigonometries Planae et Sphsericse Elementa [Cur& Jo A. KEILL], item TRACTATUS 

 de NATURAet ARITHMETICA LOGARITHMORUM [EJUSDEM AUCTORIS] ; with 2 plates, and numerous 

 diagrams, 8vo. old calf, 12* Qd Oxonice, e Theatro Sheldon., 1715 



A very interesting volume, having the following inscription by FRANCES TROLLOPE the novelist to her son on flyleaf : 

 'Anthony Trollope from his affectionate mother FRANCES TROLLOPE. 18 Nov er 1835.' He had then just begun 

 his career at the Post Office, and probably read as a rule lighter books than Euclid. There is also the bookplate of the 

 former, and the auto. ' Arthur William Trollope ' (D.D., headmaster of Christ's Hospital, 1768-1827). 



' On y trouve un excellent traite' des logarithmes et quelques autres morceaux utiles qui rendent cet Euclide precieux.' 

 Montuda. 



7629 EDITIO NOVA ; with numerous diagrams, 8vo. old calf gilt, with fine old armorial book- 

 plate of Charles Craigie, 5s ibidem, ex eodem, 1731 



WILLIAM HERBERT'S FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EUCLID : 



7630 : The ELEMENTS of GEOMETRIE of the most auncient Philosopher EUCLIDE of MEGARA, 



faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by [SiR] H[ENRY] BILLINGSLEY Citizen 

 [and Lord Mayor] of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine Scholies, Annotations and 

 Inuentions, of the best Mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very 

 fruitfull Prseface by M. J[OHN] DEE [pr. and astrologer], specifying the chiefe Mathematicall 

 Scieces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new 

 SECRETS MATHEMATICALL and MECHANICALL, vntill these our daies, greatly missed, first 

 English translation, with fine woodcut title, fine large portrait of Dr. Dee on last 1., large 

 woodcut initials, large folding table, and numerous diagrams, thick folio, old russia (small piece 

 of back repaired, and table slightly mended, otherwise a fine and very large copy) ; very 

 rare, 8. 15* [colophon :] Printed by John Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate 



beneath Saint Martins, 1570 



The above fine copy (which measures 12^ x <*& inches) belonged to WILLIAM HERBERT, the bibliographer (1718-95), 

 and bears the auto. ' W^. Herbert. 1773 ' on title. There is also an inscription : ' Hans Sothcby e dono G. Isted. 1804', 

 and another on flyleaf: ' Hans Sotheby to G. Swiney '. It contains the folding table which is often missing. 



7631 ANOTHER COPY, old English calf (title and table missing, last 3 II. mended, and a number 



of II. stained, otherwise a VERY SOUND AND EXCEPTIONALLY' TALL COPY, measuring Yl\ x 8fc 

 inches], 3. 10* 



BOTH THE ABOVE ARE UNUSUALLY TALL COPIES OF THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH 

 TRANSLATION OF EUCLID. 



' In his long and learned preface, Dee refers to the popular belief that he was a conjuror, and asks whether a modest 

 Christian philosopher ought, on account of marvellous feats naturally wrought and contrived, to be condemned as ' a 

 companion of the helhounds, and a caller, and a conjuror of wicked and damned spirits '. This preface is dated on 9 Feb. 

 1569/70, from his house on the bank of the Thames at Mortlake, Surrey, where he studied diligently for many years and 

 collected a noble library of the most curious books in all sciences, and a large number of valuable MSS.' D. N. B. 



In spite of his protests Dr. Dee (who died Warden of Manchester Collegiate Church, now the Cathedral) was notorious as a 

 consulting sorcerer in large practice all his life. But in connexion with the above book it well deserves to be rioted that 

 in 1550, at the College of Rheims at Paris, he lectured publicly on Euclid's Elements, mathematice, physice, et 

 Pythagorice, which had never before been done in any University in Christendom. 



7632 ELEMENTS, with select Theorems out of Archimedes, by ANDREW TACQUET, with Practical 



Corollaries; the Whole abridg'd, and in this 4th Edition published in English, by WILLIAM 

 WHISTON, pr., with bust-portrait and plates, sm. 8vo. old calf, 4s 1719 



