GRANDI (Guido)

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GRANDI (Guido)
Compendio delle sezioni coniche d'Apollonio Con aggiunta di nuove proprietà delle medesime Sezioni. Florence, Nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per gli Tartini, e Franchi, 1722. Small in-12, vellum, smooth back, slices speckled with red (Binding of the time). Riccardi, t. I, col. 624. Original edition, decorated with 7 folding plates engraved on copper, containing 90 geometric figures. Abstract of Apollonius de Perga's treatise on conical sections, given by Guido Grandi (1671-1742), theologian and mathematician born in Cremona. Copy kept in its first binding, annotated by a mathematician of the time. Small red wax stamp with upper counterplate, unidentified. Armoured ex-libris.
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