EUCLID. The Elements of Geometrie... Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley. London: John Daye (1570). Folio, 299 x 210 mm. (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.), nineteenth-century half calf over pasteboard, rebacked, preserving most of backstrip including red morocco lettering-piece, corners restored, inner hinges reinforced, extremities rubbed; two copies of bifolium Yy3.4 bound in, lacking bifolium Ll2.5, a duplicate copy of Ii2.5 erroneously bound in its place, lacking at least one overslip, 5 overslips or portions thereof detached, lacking final blank, first and last leaves slightly soiled, fore-edge frayed, worm track to lower margins throughout, repaired in first four leaves, the repair grazing title border, wormhole through text in quires O-P, six-inch repaired tear to folding chart, last leaf creased, perforated library stamp through title-leaf, first leaves of preface and text, and folding chart, ink accession stamp on fol. [2], small inkstain to Gg4, some dampstaining, a few leaves browned. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION, preface by John Dee, title within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 99), folding letterpress "Groundplat," woodcut text diagrams, of which 34 in book XI with one or more folding overslips, large woodcut printer's device on final leaf (McKerrow 145), woodcut tail-pieces and initials. STC 10560; Thomas-Stanford 41. Billingsley, a successful London merchant who later became Lord Mayor, based his translation on the version of Campanus, first printed in 1482. The importance of his translation was overshadowed by John Dee's preface, "on the relations and applications of mathematics, [which] established his fame among the mathematical practitioners. Although translated by Billingsley, the Euclid is unmistakably edited by Dee, for the body of the work, especially the later books, contains many annotations and additional theorems by him" (DSB).Provenance: Traces of contemporary inscription on title (effaced), one or two early marginalia -- "Lorne," repeated eighteenth-century signature on title -- Ditton Park, armorial bookplate -- Bancroft Library, UCLA, gift of Julius Wangenheim, bookplate with release stamp.

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EUCLID. The Elements of Geometrie... Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley. London: John Daye (1570). Folio, 299 x 210 mm. (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.), nineteenth-century half calf over pasteboard, rebacked, preserving most of backstrip including red morocco lettering-piece, corners restored, inner hinges reinforced, extremities rubbed; two copies of bifolium Yy3.4 bound in, lacking bifolium Ll2.5, a duplicate copy of Ii2.5 erroneously bound in its place, lacking at least one overslip, 5 overslips or portions thereof detached, lacking final blank, first and last leaves slightly soiled, fore-edge frayed, worm track to lower margins throughout, repaired in first four leaves, the repair grazing title border, wormhole through text in quires O-P, six-inch repaired tear to folding chart, last leaf creased, perforated library stamp through title-leaf, first leaves of preface and text, and folding chart, ink accession stamp on fol. [2], small inkstain to Gg4, some dampstaining, a few leaves browned. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION, preface by John Dee, title within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 99), folding letterpress "Groundplat," woodcut text diagrams, of which 34 in book XI with one or more folding overslips, large woodcut printer's device on final leaf (McKerrow 145), woodcut tail-pieces and initials. STC 10560; Thomas-Stanford 41. Billingsley, a successful London merchant who later became Lord Mayor, based his translation on the version of Campanus, first printed in 1482. The importance of his translation was overshadowed by John Dee's preface, "on the relations and applications of mathematics, [which] established his fame among the mathematical practitioners. Although translated by Billingsley, the Euclid is unmistakably edited by Dee, for the body of the work, especially the later books, contains many annotations and additional theorems by him" (DSB). Provenance: Traces of contemporary inscription on title (effaced), one or two early marginalia -- "Lorne," repeated eighteenth-century signature on title -- Ditton Park, armorial bookplate -- Bancroft Library, UCLA, gift of Julius Wangenheim, bookplate with release stamp.

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EUCLID. The Elements of Geometrie... Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley. London: John Daye (1570). Folio, 299 x 210 mm. (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.), nineteenth-century half calf over pasteboard, rebacked, preserving most of backstrip including red morocco lettering-piece, corners restored, inner hinges reinforced, extremities rubbed; two copies of bifolium Yy3.4 bound in, lacking bifolium Ll2.5, a duplicate copy of Ii2.5 erroneously bound in its place, lacking at least one overslip, 5 overslips or portions thereof detached, lacking final blank, first and last leaves slightly soiled, fore-edge frayed, worm track to lower margins throughout, repaired in first four leaves, the repair grazing title border, wormhole through text in quires O-P, six-inch repaired tear to folding chart, last leaf creased, perforated library stamp through title-leaf, first leaves of preface and text, and folding chart, ink accession stamp on fol. [2], small inkstain to Gg4, some dampstaining, a few leaves browned. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION, preface by John Dee, title within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 99), folding letterpress "Groundplat," woodcut text diagrams, of which 34 in book XI with one or more folding overslips, large woodcut printer's device on final leaf (McKerrow 145), woodcut tail-pieces and initials. STC 10560; Thomas-Stanford 41.

Billingsley, a successful London merchant who later became Lord Mayor, based his translation on the version of Campanus, first printed in 1482. The importance of his translation was overshadowed by John Dee's preface, "on the relations and applications of mathematics, [which] established his fame among the mathematical practitioners. Although translated by Billingsley, the Euclid is unmistakably edited by Dee, for the body of the work, especially the later books, contains many annotations and additional theorems by him" (DSB).

Provenance: Traces of contemporary inscription on title (effaced), one or two early marginalia -- "Lorne," repeated eighteenth-century signature on title -- Ditton Park, armorial bookplate -- Bancroft Library, UCLA, gift of Julius Wangenheim, bookplate with release stamp.