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Auction archive: Lot number 97

EUCLID -- BYRNE, Oliver The First Six Books of the Elements ...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$10,000
Auction archive: Lot number 97

EUCLID -- BYRNE, Oliver The First Six Books of the Elements ...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$10,000
Beschreibung:

EUCLID -- BYRNE, Oliver. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners . London: Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for William Pickering, 1847.
EUCLID -- BYRNE, Oliver. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners . London: Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for William Pickering, 1847. 4 (232 x 188 mm). Half-title. Four-line wood-engraved initials. Color diagrams throughout printed in red, blue, yellow and black. (Some spotting.) Contemporary calf (rubbed). BYRNE'S SPECTACULAR RENDERING OF EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY USING FOUR-COLOR PRINTING. Another copy (see also previous lot). Ing, Charles Whittingham Printer 46; Keynes, Pickering pp. 37, 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design p.51.

Auction archive: Lot number 97
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
2 December 2010, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

EUCLID -- BYRNE, Oliver. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners . London: Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for William Pickering, 1847.
EUCLID -- BYRNE, Oliver. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners . London: Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for William Pickering, 1847. 4 (232 x 188 mm). Half-title. Four-line wood-engraved initials. Color diagrams throughout printed in red, blue, yellow and black. (Some spotting.) Contemporary calf (rubbed). BYRNE'S SPECTACULAR RENDERING OF EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY USING FOUR-COLOR PRINTING. Another copy (see also previous lot). Ing, Charles Whittingham Printer 46; Keynes, Pickering pp. 37, 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design p.51.

Auction archive: Lot number 97
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
2 December 2010, New York, Rockefeller Center
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