Lot 786: FINÉ, ORONCE.

De re & praxi geometrica, libri tres, figuris & demonstrationibus illustrati. Ubi de quadrato geometrico, & virgis seu baculis mensoriis, necnon aliis, cum mathematicis, tum mechanicis. Paris: Gilles Gourbin, 1556

Condition Note:

4to (232 x 158mm.), ff. [4], 56, [1 (blank)], title-page ruled in red, illustration : woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams (one full-page), binding : later limp vellum

Mortimer, Harvard French 230

First separate edition, originally issued as book 2 of "Geometria" in Finé's Protomathesis of 1532 (see lot 778). The woodcuts are copies, often reduced and simplified, of the diagrams used in that earlier work.