Lot 27: FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). Quadratura Circuli . Paris: Simon de Colines, 1544. 2° (290 x 299mm). Woodcut title border, woodcut illustrations and diagrams. (Occasional browning and spotting.) 20th-century quarter red morocco. Provenance : erased

FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). Quadratura Circuli. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1544. 2° (290 x 299mm). Woodcut title border, woodcut illustrations and diagrams. (Occasional browning and spotting.) 20th-century quarter red morocco. Provenance: erased ownership inscription on title and H3.

FIRST EDITION of an interesting scientific treatise in which Finé offers what he believes to be a more precise value of \kp\K; the work attempts to calculate the ratio of circumference to diameter and solve the quadrature of the circle. The majority of the woodcuts are diagrams decorated with florets which are characteristic of Finé's illustration for his own books. Adams F-479; Mortimer, Harvard French, 229.