BARTOLI, Cosimo - Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini, secondo le vere regole d'Euclide, & de gli altri piu lodati scrittori.

Venetia: per Francesco Franceschi Sanese, 1589. 4to. 145, [3] leaves; 2 folding plates; numerous woodcuts within text; engraved medallion portrait of Bartoli on leaf A2 recto; woodcut initials throughout. Quires signed A-S in eights followed by quire T of four leaves. 17th-century parchment, modern endpapers. Marginal paper repairs in first quire, not affecting text; minor corner repairs on final two leaves; ink stain visible on top edge, bleeding into upper margins of quires F-T but not affecting text. Early ownership inscriptions (deleted and illegible) on verso of title-page and on A2 recto; early marginal annotations in ink (slightly cropped) on H3 verso, K5 recto and O3 verso. Adams B277; BMC STC (Italy) p. 73; Smith, Rara mathematica, p. 135, note.

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