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Porfirio, tr. Giuseppe Muscolini – Mathematikós: Introduzione al Trattato Sugli Effetti Prodotti dalle Stelle di Tolemeo, 2017

£27.50

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hb/dj Porfirio [= Porphyry] Mathematikós – Introduzione al Trattato Sugli Effetti Prodotti dalle Stelle di Tolemeo e le Testimonianze e i Frammenti Relativi alle Opere di Matematica e di Geometria 1st thus Giunti Editore S.p.A. 2017 £27.50 A critical edition in the original Greek of Porphyry’s introduction to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos, together with a modern Italian translation, a facsimile of the Latin edition of 1559, and scholarly notes and essays in Italian. Original cloth in fine condition. In fine glossy pictorial dj. Approx. 1 cm tears to top edges of leaves comprising pp. 9-14 (far from text), with creasing to equivalent areas of previous three preliminary leaves and slightly to outer margins of pp. 15-22. Otherwise a fine, unread copy.

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Weight 0.795 kg