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SCHOTT, Gaspar. Cursus mathematicus, sive absoluta omnium mathematicarum... Würzburg: Heirs of Martin Schönwetter, 1661.
2o (335 x 204 mm). Engraved additional title by A. Froehlich (trimmed at fore-edge) and 42 engraved plates including 2 double-page (browning throughout). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, 2 brass clasps (light rubbing and staining). Provenance: Weingarten, Monastery (inscription "Monasterii Weingartensis 1671" on engraved title and title); Stuttgart, Royal Private Library (small ink stamp: "Königliche Handbibliothek" on title).
FIRST EDITION, containing apart from mathematics also astronomy, astrology, chronography, geography, dialling, mechanics, optics, fortification, etc. Also included is the appendix containing Euclid's Propositionum. BM/STC 17th-century German S-1237; Sommervogel VIII, p. 907.
2o (335 x 204 mm). Engraved additional title by A. Froehlich (trimmed at fore-edge) and 42 engraved plates including 2 double-page (browning throughout). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, 2 brass clasps (light rubbing and staining). Provenance: Weingarten, Monastery (inscription "Monasterii Weingartensis 1671" on engraved title and title); Stuttgart, Royal Private Library (small ink stamp: "Königliche Handbibliothek" on title).
FIRST EDITION, containing apart from mathematics also astronomy, astrology, chronography, geography, dialling, mechanics, optics, fortification, etc. Also included is the appendix containing Euclid's Propositionum. BM/STC 17th-century German S-1237; Sommervogel VIII, p. 907.