Author
Ryff, Peter, 1552-1629
Title
Quæstiones geometricæ, : in Euclidis & P. Rami [stoicheiōsin]; in usum scholæ mathematicæ collectæ, / à Doctore Petro Ryff, Basil. Mathematum Professore. Quibus geodæsiam adjecimus per usum radii geometrici..
Varying form of title
Quaestiones geometricae
Imprint
Francofurti, : Sumptibus Johannis Pressii, typis Caspari Roetelii., Anno M.DC.IL. [1649]
Physical description
135, [1] p. : ill. ; 18 cm (4to)
Note
Signatures: A-R⁴.
Note
Woodcut printer's device on title page and (in a different form) on final page.
Note
Initials, head-pieces.
Note
"Geodæsia, præceptorum geometricorum usum per radium breviter explicans": caption title on page 110.
Citation/references note
CLC, R1149
Provenance
Inscription on upper endleaf: "Sum ex libris Thomæ Edwardes ... Anno Dominj 1655". Inscription on lower endleaf: "Sum ex libris Tho: Edward[es] 1656".
Provenance
Inscription on lower endleaf, below that of Thomas Edwardes: "Joannes Hartop[?]".
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
17th-century dark brown calf over paper boards; sewn on three tawed leather supports; evidence of earlier stab-stitching; boards decorated with blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards; smooth spine with blind fillets; blind fillet around board edges; blind hatching on tail edge of boards; text block edges sprinkled red and blue; printed waste used as endleaves; evidence of chain-plate on lower board.
Copy-specific note
Price at head of title page.
Copy-specific note
Bound in a volume of 17th-century texts.
Copy-specific note
A page listing the contents of the volume, and with notes about the previous owners, all in the hand of Christopher Wordsworth (18488-1938), has been tipped in on the upper endleaf stub.
Subject
Euclid
Subject
Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572
Subject
Geometry Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mathematics Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Press, Johann, active 1640-1654 publisher.
Added entry--name
Rötel, Kaspar printer.
Added entry--name
Edwards, Thomas, active 17th century former owner.
Added entry--name
Hartop, John, active 17th century former owner.
Added entry--uncontrolled related/analytical title
Geodæsia, præceptorum geometricorum usum per radium breviter explicans.
Added entry--uncontrolled related/analytical title
Geodaesia, praeceptorum geometricorum usum per radium breviter explicans
Added entry--place
Germany Frankfurt am Main.
B16071
UKSbSC
20240227103502.2