APOLLONIUS PERGAEUS. Conicorum libri octo, et Sereni Antissensi de sectione cylindri & coni libri II. Oxford, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1710. 3 parts in 1 vol. (12), 250; (10), 171; (4), 88 pp. W. engr. front. & engr. ti-vign. Fol. Cont. blind tooled cf. (Rebacked in mod. cf., sides a bit chafed, corners worn, in places rather browned/foxed, but else fine and with ample margins). The present edition is the first complete edition of the eight books of Apollonius, containing the editio princeps of the first four books in the original Greek. The three following books were added in Latin translation from the Arabic, with a conjectural restoration of the lost eighth book. Four hundred copies were printed. - Schweiger I, 37 ("selten"); Hoffmann I, 203 ("gesucht u. im hoh. Preise").
APOLLONIUS PERGAEUS. Conicorum libri octo, et Sereni Antissensi de sectione cylindri & coni libri II. Oxford, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1710. 3 parts in 1 vol. (12), 250; (10), 171; (4), 88 pp. W. engr. front. & engr. ti-vign. Fol. Cont. blind tooled cf. (Rebacked in mod. cf., sides a bit chafed, corners worn, in places rather browned/foxed, but else fine and with ample margins). The present edition is the first complete edition of the eight books of Apollonius, containing the editio princeps of the first four books in the original Greek. The three following books were added in Latin translation from the Arabic, with a conjectural restoration of the lost eighth book. Four hundred copies were printed. - Schweiger I, 37 ("selten"); Hoffmann I, 203 ("gesucht u. im hoh. Preise").
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