Lot 781: FINÉ, ORONCE.

In sex priores libros geometricorum elementorum Euclidis Megarensis demonstrationes. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1536, [8], 174pp., illustration : elaborate woodcut border on title-page, woodcut criblé initials, woodcut headpieces and diagrams

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Ibid. Arithmetica practica, libri quatuor absoluta... Aeditio tertia. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1542, ff. 68, illustration : elaborate woodcut border on title-page, woodcut criblé initials, woodcut headpieces and diagrams

Ibid. Quadrans astrolabicus, omnibus Europae regionibus inserviens: ex recenti & emendata ipsius authoris recognitione in ampliorem. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1534, ff. 18, illustration : elaborate woodcut border on title-page, woodcut criblé initials

3 works in one volume, folio (301 x 205mm.), binding : later vellum-backed boards, occasional light staining, wormhole in gutter, vellum cracking

Renouard, Colines, pp.262-264, 357-358, 229-230; 1st work: Mortimer, Harvard Italian 215; Thomas-Stanford 8; 2nd work: Smith p.163

first edition of Finé's commentary on problems posed by Euclid, using the Latin translation of Bartolommeo Zamberti. The Arithmetica practica was first published by Colines in 1535 (see lot 779), and the Quadrans astrolabicus in 1527.