ARCHIMEDES (ca. 287?-212 B.C.). Quae supersunt omnia ... ex recensione Joseph Torelli, Veronensis, cum nova versione latina, Oxford: Clarendon, 1792, 2° (438 x 257mm.), engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, one engraved plate, numerous woodcut diagrams in text (small stamps to title, few short marginal tears, occasional light spotting, else good & clean), original drab boards (spine rebacked with buckram, covers worn), uncut. [Sotheran I, 149].

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ARCHIMEDES (ca. 287?-212 B.C.). Quae supersunt omnia ... ex recensione Joseph Torelli, Veronensis, cum nova versione latina, Oxford: Clarendon, 1792, 2° (438 x 257mm.), engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, one engraved plate, numerous woodcut diagrams in text (small stamps to title, few short marginal tears, occasional light spotting, else good & clean), original drab boards (spine rebacked with buckram, covers worn), uncut. [Sotheran I, 149].

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The most complete and magnificent edition of Archimedes's works printed under the superintendence of Abraham Robertson, Savillian Professor of Astronomy, with his commentary on the tract relating to floating bodies, and the life of Torelli by Sibiliati.

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