farfel_n02_145_122

122
April '86
Calif Book Auction Gulevies
San Fansicsco
$65.00

134 copies to the leaf, of an ed. of 450
copies. San Franscisco: Wofay, 1977.
Early Editions of Euclid's Elements. Charles Thomas -
Stanford. San Franscisco 1977 to an original leaf
from the Ratdold 1482 ed. of Euclid's Elemnets (1981) $13,500
-Liber V proposition 27-31 a10b-^8.
Euclides, fl. c. 300 B.C., Greek mathematician
Elementa geometria (LiberI-XIII XV)
Venice: Enhand Ratdolt, 25 May 1482 F.0
Goff E113 HC 6693 BMC V p. 285 GW 9428. Horblit, Grolier 100 Science- 27.
Cop Stan UL. San Franscisco Public Lib. (207x310)
[to notes by Compenus Nouveriens in] Easling 282.
1381., the 1st blamk. (45) 445. +headlines, without marginalia 202(211)x118mm
Types:155G heading on Ib; 92G, preface, definitions, enunciations; 91 G
remainder of text; 100R headlines (book numbers); 56(75)G letterings of
diagnoses. Capital spaces on 2a, capitals(2, 5, 6b) elsewhere
The 1st in which Euclid appeared in print + also the earliest
book in which a continuous series of geometrical illustrations were
published. The enormous labor attending such a task is
dwelt upon by Ratdolt in his dedication to the Doge Mocenigo
-A specimen of similar initials had appeared 5 yrs before
from the same printer in the Appian of 1477.
-Geometrical figures executed in metal.
-Earlier books best printed. Printing + Mind of Man #25.
from Greek ro Arabic into Latin
-Translated by Adelard of Bath, ca. 1110-1142; edited by
Campunus of Novara (Lombards) ca. 1260-1292.
There are in all, upwards of 420 wood engrabings, excluding
about 200 which may be formed from lead lines
-Dedication - to the Doge of Venice, John Mocenico (1478-85)
-Ratdolt was the 1st printer to employ several coloured
inks simultaneously, if we exclude the doubtful versal letters
of the 1457 Psalter of Fust + Scheoffer.
-Two different sizes of Gothic type, both of them considerably
larger than that used for the "Fasciculus" are employed
-Initials (Set 5) there are used 10 forms of S.
-Ratdolt worked at Venice in 1476-86 + thereafter at Augsburg