EUCLID. ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY, the first VI Books in a compendious form contracted and demonstrated by Captain Thomas Rudd, whereunto is added the mathematical preface of Mr. John Dee, London, by Robert and William Leybourn for Richard Tomlins and Robert Boydell, 1651, sm. 4to, title printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams (some browning), contemporary calf (rebacked, upper cover detached). [Wing E3396; Sotheran I, 1216; not in Honeyman]

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EUCLID. ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY, the first VI Books in a compendious form contracted and demonstrated by Captain Thomas Rudd, whereunto is added the mathematical preface of Mr. John Dee, London, by Robert and William Leybourn for Richard Tomlins and Robert Boydell, 1651, sm. 4to, title printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams (some browning), contemporary calf (rebacked, upper cover detached). [Wing E3396; Sotheran I, 1216; not in Honeyman]

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The first edition by Rudd, unknown to Lowndes, and the SECOND ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF EUCLID. John Dee's preface was originally published in H. Billingsley's translation of 1570.

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