Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco

3. ARchImedeS. Opera non nulla. A Federico
commandino urbinate nuper in latinum conversa
et commentariis illustrata. Venice, apud
Paulum Manutium Aldi filium, 1558, € 5.000
folio, 2 parts in one vol., roman type for the first part, italics
for the second. Bound in contemporary vellum, preserved
into an elegant box. Aldus’ devices on two titles and at the
end. Illustrated by a great number of woodcuts of technical
diagrams. First edition of the translation from Rereek
by Commandino of the five books of Archimedes, and first
issue of the Commentaria. Very rare genuine copy.
Renouard 173.3. Ucla IIIb, 448. Riccardi I,42. [4936]
4. ARTIS AuRIFeRAe, quam chemiam vocant,
volumina duo… Accessit noviter volumen tertium.
Basileae, typis Conradi Walkirchi, MDCX
(Basle 1610), € 6.000
8vo, three parts in one vol., pp.(16), 405, (23, 4 blanks); 346,
(16, 2 blanks); (2), 185, (5). Contemporary vellum. With
21 hermetic woodcuts, one in the first part (the well known
“Turba philoshorum”) and 20 illustrating the “Rosarium
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