[VIVIANI, Vincenzo (1622-1703)]. Quinto libro degli elementi d'Euclide ovvero scienza universale delle proporzioni spiegata colla dottrina del Galileo. Florence: alla Condotta, 1674. 4° (232 x 165mm). Woodcut diagrams (browning, spotting, worm traces in blank upper margins). Old vellum (soiled). Provenance: the French physicist Edme Marriotte's copy, previously in the library of a Jesuit seminary, with library markings.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of one of Viviani's important works. This first issue was published before the appendix of geometrical problems was prepared: this is to be found at the end of later issues of the same edition of the work. Carli and Favaro 339; Cinti 151; Riccardi II, 625(2).
[VIVIANI, Vincenzo (1622-1703)]. Quinto libro degli elementi d'Euclide ovvero scienza universale delle proporzioni spiegata colla dottrina del Galileo. Florence: alla Condotta, 1674. 4° (232 x 165mm). Woodcut diagrams (browning, spotting, worm traces in blank upper margins). Old vellum (soiled). Provenance: the French physicist Edme Marriotte's copy, previously in the library of a Jesuit seminary, with library markings.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of one of Viviani's important works. This first issue was published before the appendix of geometrical problems was prepared: this is to be found at the end of later issues of the same edition of the work. Carli and Favaro 339; Cinti 151; Riccardi II, 625(2).
