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PAPPUS ALEXANDRINUS. Mathematicae collectiones. A Federico Commandino Vrbinatae in latinum conuersae, & commentarijs illustratae. Pesaro: Girolamo Concordia, 1588.
2° (307 x 205mm). Latin text with passages in Greek. Concordia’s device of Fortitude on title, woodcut diagrams, cuts of pulley and corkscrew mechanisms in final book, woodcut opening initials. (Some spotting and occasional light browning, Ii1 with marginal repair, Ffff4 with marginal stains, waterstaining to quire Mmmm and occasionally elsewhere.) 17th-century limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, uncut (some crinkling).
FIRST EDITION OF PAPPUS’S COLLECTIONS, UNCUT COPY. While his original work was limited in output, Federico Commandino’s fame rests on his translations of ancient mathematicians from sources primarily in Greek and secondarily in Arabic. The Pappo (without books I-II) was one of the translations published after his death in 1575. The dedicatee was Francesco Maria II, duke of Urbino, to whom Commandino had at one time been private tutor and medical adviser. Francesco Maria obtained permission to publish the work from Commandino’s daughters Olimpia and Lorrena, the dedication was by Olimpia’s husband Valerio Spaccioli, and the text edited for the press by Guidobaldo del Monte, Commandino’s former pupil (see Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, vol. 27, 1982). A second edition was published in Venice in 1589, and another in Bologna 1660 by Carlo Manolessi. BL/STC Italian Books p.489; Honeyman 2402; Riccardi I(i) 364 (date misprinted 1558).
2° (307 x 205mm). Latin text with passages in Greek. Concordia’s device of Fortitude on title, woodcut diagrams, cuts of pulley and corkscrew mechanisms in final book, woodcut opening initials. (Some spotting and occasional light browning, Ii1 with marginal repair, Ffff4 with marginal stains, waterstaining to quire Mmmm and occasionally elsewhere.) 17th-century limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, uncut (some crinkling).
FIRST EDITION OF PAPPUS’S COLLECTIONS, UNCUT COPY. While his original work was limited in output, Federico Commandino’s fame rests on his translations of ancient mathematicians from sources primarily in Greek and secondarily in Arabic. The Pappo (without books I-II) was one of the translations published after his death in 1575. The dedicatee was Francesco Maria II, duke of Urbino, to whom Commandino had at one time been private tutor and medical adviser. Francesco Maria obtained permission to publish the work from Commandino’s daughters Olimpia and Lorrena, the dedication was by Olimpia’s husband Valerio Spaccioli, and the text edited for the press by Guidobaldo del Monte, Commandino’s former pupil (see Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, vol. 27, 1982). A second edition was published in Venice in 1589, and another in Bologna 1660 by Carlo Manolessi. BL/STC Italian Books p.489; Honeyman 2402; Riccardi I(i) 364 (date misprinted 1558).
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