The elements of Euclid explain'd, . in a new, but most easie method: together with the use of every proposition through all parts of the mathematicks. Written in French, by ... F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales, ... Now made English, ...
Euclid (fl.300 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1704
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3149122
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 380 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 12mo. Copy has added engraved title page bound as frontispiece. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "J: Talbot è Coll: Oriel", probably of John Talbot, ?1717-1778, on recto of first free end-paper. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot", i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on recto of first free end-paper. Eighteenth century manuscript inscription "178", possibly a previous shelfmark, on front pastedown. Binding: eighteenth century Cambridge-style plain and sprinkled calf; blind stamped to a panel design; decorative tooling on edges of boards; manuscript title label, now illegible, in eighteenth century italic characters on spine; text block edges sprinkled red and brown.
Makers and roles
Euclid (fl.300 BC)