LEFEVRE D'ÉTAPLES, Jacques

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LEFEVRE D'ÉTAPLES, Jacques
In hoc libro contenta: Epitome compendiosaque introductio in libros arithmeticos divi Severini Boetii: adiecto familiari comentario dilucidata. praxi numerandi certis quibusdam regulis constricta [per J. Clichtoveum]. Introductio in geometriam... Liber de quadratura circuli; Liber de cubitatione sphere [Caro Bovilo auctore]; Perspectiva introductio. In super astronomicon [J. Fabro Stapulensis auctore]. Paris, Wolfgang Hopilius & Henri Estienne, June 27, 1510. 112 ff.ch. in small folio (277 x 194 mm) (foliotation errors). (foliotation errors), title in a woodcut frame, one full-page woodcut, numerous diagrams in the text, some woodcut initials. Half calf with corners (Hatton, Manchester). Renouard, Estienne, 1:2; Schreiber, 1; Adams lacks. First edition, a copy of the extremely rare edition with woodcut title and illustrated with woodcut initials in the text. Schreiber was not aware of this edition and indicates about Renouard's note: "Erroneously mentioning a title woodcut, which only appeared in the 1510 edition". The very rare third book from Henri Estienne's workshop and one of the rare witnesses of the collaboration between Henri Estienne and Wolfgang Hopyl. This edition contains texts on mathematics, geometry and astronomy, intended for students. It is also the first edition with Clichtove's important comments. "First editions of these mathematical, geometrical, and astronomical treatises to be used as the basis of lectures to university students... This is the first edition with Clichtove's commentary... Clichtove's Praxis numerandi, devoted mainly to the theory of numbers, gives an elaborate theory of ratios and figure numbers. The Introductio in geometriam of Charles Bovelles - the first geometrical work published by a Frenchman - includes a discourse on the quadrature of the circle, the cubation of the sphere, perspective, etc. Lefevre's Astronomicon a brief introductory textbook on astronomy, contains a prefatory letter to Germain de Ganay, in which Lefevre draws a sharp distinction between the false astrology of seers and 'horoscope-makers' and the true science of the heavenly bodies" (Schreiber) Good copy, the binder took care to fold back two leaves (51 and 66) to avoid cutting them during binding, title with old tear without loss. Provenance: rare old notes - Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate, South library).
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