[Colophon:] Venice: Bernardinus Bindonus, 1537. First edition, an extraordinary copy of the greatest importance, signed and heavily annotated by the celebrated English polymath John Dee (1527-1608), and later acquired and signed by John Winthrop Jr. (1606-76), the first Governor of Connecticut, whose library was one of the most important in..... More
Item #5650

Leiden: Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1646. First collected edition, rare, of the mathematical writings of François Viète (1540-1603), the greatest French mathematician of the sixteenth century, who was “the first extensively to use letters of the alphabet to represent numerical quantities” (Hutchinson’s Dictionary of Scientific Bibliography, p. 690), and “the..... More
Item #4931