(1537). EUCLIDE. ELEMENTORUM GEOMETRICORUM LIBRI XV. - Lot 179

(1537). EUCLIDE. ELEMENTORUM GEOMETRICORUM LIBRI XV. Basel, Jean Hervage, August 1537. In-folio of [8]-587-[1] pages, green half-percaline (20th century binding). First Latin edition of the Elements published by Hervagius, containing the small treatises on spherical geometry (Phaenomena), optics (Perspectiva) and geometric exercises (Data), with commentaries by Campanus and Zamberti. This is the most famous source of Greek geometry, comprising all the fundamentals for the intellectual development of Mankind. Copy complete with Mélanchton's preface to the "adolescentibus...", often censored in other copies. Numerous diagrams and woodcuts. Small cut at top of title, marginal rings on first few leaves, a very good copy. (USTC, 654853) (DSB IV, p.431).