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PAPPUS, Alexandrinus. Mathematicae collectiones, translated by Federico Commandino, Bologna: Heirs of Dozza, 1660. 2°, half title, large engraved title-vignette, title printed in red and black, printer's device at end, engraved portrait of Leopold Archduke of Austria, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces (half title browned, beginning and end with mainly marginal worming, occasional light spotting), early vellum-backed boards (spine and some of the covers wormed, extremities very rubbed). Wellcome IV, p. 293.