THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID
London: printed for Philip Lea, globemaker, at the Atlas and Hercules in the Atlas and Hercules in the Poultrey, near Cheapside, 1685. First Edition Thus. 12mo., [12], 391, [5]; Fair; bound in contemporary calf, front board and endpapers detached but present, spine missing, wear and rubbing to boards; edges of text block marbled; name in ink to title page; interior clean; with all 9 leaves of plates, plate 4 with small hole causing loss of text; lacking engraved portrait frontispiece of Euclid; Dedicated to Samuel Pepys; scarce; SP consignment; shelved case 3.
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ESTC: R10241; Wing: E3399;
The first English edition of Dechales' Huict livres des Elements d'Euclide rendus plus faciles, a paraphrase of Euclid. This work covers Books 1 to 6, along with Books 11 and 12. Another English edition was published in London the same year, by a different translator.