Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details

Language and size:Libri Latini, &c. in Duodecimo
Lot number:262
Page number:37
Author:Euclid
Title:[Elementa] Lib. 6. prior. a Chr. Melder
Publication place:Leiden
Publication date:1673
Price fetched:0.0.6
Other notes:Hooke purchased a copy of this book for 1s 7d from Moses Pitt's auction; it is listed as "Meldor (Ch.) in Libros IV. Prioris Euclidis Element. Ibid. [Lugd. Bat.] 1673," lot 368 on p. 100 in 'Hist. Philos. Mathemat. &c. in Duodecimo, &c.' section of Gijsbert Voet [& Moses Pitt], Catalogus variorum librorum inst[r]uctissimæ bibliothecæ præstantissimi doctissimique viri in Anglia defuncti, ut & aliorum in omnibus scientiis atque linguis insignium, ex bibliothecæ clarissimi Gisberti Voetii emptorum cum multis aliis tum antiquis tum modernis nuperrimæ ex variis partibus Europæ advectis quorum auctio habebitur . . . Novembris 25, 1678. Note that the number of books (4) indicated in Pitt's catalogue was possibly an error and should have been six.
database ID:auct_BH_1748

 

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