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EUCLID - OLIVER BYRNE BYRNE (OLIVER) The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, 1847
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EUCLID - OLIVER BYRNE
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, half-title, illustrations and diagrams printed in 4 colours, occasional offsetting, some spotting, early calf, rubbed [Ing, Charles Whittingham Printer, 46; Keynes, Pickering, pp.37, 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp.50-51], 4to, [Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for] William Pickering, 1847
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FIRST EDITION OF OLIVER BYRNE'S EUCLID, "ONE OF THE ODDEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS OF THE WHOLE CENTURY... a triumph for Charles Whittingham " (Ruari McLean, Victorian Book Design and Printing, 1963).

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