Lot 40
Euclid
[Opera] quae supersunt omnia
The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician
Auction: 23 October 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
ex recensione Davidis Gregorii. Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1703. Folio (40.5 x 23.8cm), contemporary panelled calf, xvi 686 [2] pp., engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette, errata leaf to rear, Greek and Latin text in parallel columns, woodblock diagrams throughout, chip to head of spine and to corner of label [Carter, A History of the Oxford University Press, vol. 1, p. 241; ESTC T146918]
Footnote
First edition thus, one of 250 large-paper copies from the total edition of 750, published as part of Oxford's attempt, first proposed in 1672, to publish the complete works of the ancient Greek and Latin mathematicians in the original language, in a series projected to comprise 21 volumes. (For the Oxford edition of the Conics of Apollonius, edited by Edmond Halley, see the previous lot.)