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EUCLID. Euclidis quae supersunt omnia. Ex recensione Davidis Gregorii M.D. astronomiae professoris Saviliani, & R.S.S., Oxford: The Sheldonian Theatre, 1703. 2° (315 x 195mm.), engraved frontispiece and engraved illustration of seated classical figure in front of the Sheldonian Theatre by M. Burghers, wood-engraved diagrams, errata leaf at end (occasional browning, hole at lower margins from Qqq almost to the end), contemporary panelled calf, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt (head and foot of joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, stain on lower cover), bookplate (1). Brunet II, 1087: "Edition correcte..."; Honeyman II, 1042.
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EUCLID. Euclidis quae supersunt omnia. Ex recensione Davidis Gregorii M.D. astronomiae professoris Saviliani, & R.S.S., Oxford: The Sheldonian Theatre, 1703. 2° (315 x 195mm.), engraved frontispiece and engraved illustration of seated classical figure in front of the Sheldonian Theatre by M. Burghers, wood-engraved diagrams, errata leaf at end (occasional browning, hole at lower margins from Qqq almost to the end), contemporary panelled calf, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt (head and foot of joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, stain on lower cover), bookplate (1). Brunet II, 1087: "Edition correcte..."; Honeyman II, 1042.

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EUCLID. Euclidis quae supersunt omnia. Ex recensione Davidis Gregorii M.D. astronomiae professoris Saviliani, & R.S.S., Oxford: The Sheldonian Theatre, 1703. 2° (315 x 195mm.), engraved frontispiece and engraved illustration of seated classical figure in front of the Sheldonian Theatre by M. Burghers, wood-engraved diagrams, errata leaf at end (occasional browning, hole at lower margins from Qqq almost to the end), contemporary panelled calf, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt (head and foot of joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, stain on lower cover), bookplate (1). Brunet II, 1087: "Edition correcte..."; Honeyman II, 1042.

With David Gregory's Arithmeticae et Algebrae Compendium (Edinburgh, 1736) and Robert Simson's Sectionum Conicarum Libri Quinque ... Editio Secunda (Edinburgh, 1750). (3)
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