EUCLIDE Euclidis megarensis philosophi Platonici mathematicarum disciplinarum Janitoris… Bartholomeo Zamberti Veneziae interprete.

Sander, 2609 (note); see PMM 25 (for the 1482 edition), and Stanford 5 (1505 edition); this edition not in Adams ; de Vitry, 262 and 263.

Second Tacuino edition which is in fact a reissue 1505 edition with the date changed in the colophone. We could not locate this edition in USTC and the electronic catalogue Karlsruhe (KVK) localtes one single copy at Leipzig an none in the United States.

“Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the oldest mathematical textbook in the world still in common use today. [It] is a compilation of all earlier Greek mathematical knowledge since Pythagoras, organized into a consistent system so that each theorem follows logically from it’s predecessor; and in this simplicity lies the secret of its success” (PMM).

The title is decorated with a nice woodcut vignette, the beginning of the text (leaf AA1r) is printed in red and black within an ornamental woodcut border.

The text is profusely illustrated with geometrical ornaments.

A very good copy.