EUCLID (fl. c.300 B.C.) Euclides Elements of Geometry: the first VI Books: in a Compendious Form Contracted and Demonstrated. By Captain Thomas Rudd ... Whereunto is added the Mathematicall Preface of ... John Dee. London: R. & W. Leybourn for R. Tomlins & R. Boydell, 1651. 4° (173 x 130mm). Title printed in red and black, numerous woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials and headpieces (lacks the initial blank, C4 torn and crudely repaired, lower margins cut close affecting catchwords and text on P3, Ii3 and Kk3, a little soiled and stained throughout). 18th-century vellum (soiled and rubbed, tear in head of spine). Provenance: Richard Burton (contemporary ownership inscription on verso of title recording the price (4/-) and its presentastion to him by his brother P.B.) -- R. Wright (a few 19th-century notes in the text and an interpolated folding manuscript table bewteen pp.66 & 67 -- From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate). Wing E3396.