The elements of Euclid; . viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. The errors ... are corrected, ... By Robert Simson, ...
Euclid (fl.300 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Paper and leather
Measurements
217 x 135 mm; 36 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
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Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire
NT 3055287
Summary
The elements of Euclid by Robert Simson.
Bibliographic description
vii,[1],528p., plates . ill.., diags. . 8vo.. MS note (in hand of W.H. Wilson) at foot of final prelim. page. Provenance: Signature on flyleaf: W.H. Wilson. Pilsley. 1822. (Also on dedication leaf, without 'Pilsley').. Binding: Tree sheep (nineteenth-century), with brown paper wrapper with title in MS on cream paper spine. Front joint broken; flyleaf detached.
Provenance
Books assumed to have been acquired in the 1990s.
Makers and roles
Euclid (fl.300 BC) Robert Simson (1687-1768)