Geometria, à Renato Des Cartes ...; unà cum notis Florimondi de Beaune ... /
Descartes, René,1596-1650.
Beaune, Florimond de,1601-1652.
Schooten, Frans van,1615-1660.
Bartholin, Erasmus,1625-1698.
Farmer, Henry George,1882-1965,former owner.StEdNL
Simson, Robert,1687-1768,former owner.StEdNL
Johnstoun, John,former owner.StEdNL
Amstelaedami, : Apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios,
1659-1661.
The titlepage of v. 2 reads: Principia matheseos universalis ... conscripta ab Er. Bartholino ....
The half-title of v. 1 and the titlepage of v. 2 have the statement: Editio secunda.
Bound with: De aequationum natura, constitutione, & limitibus opuscula duo ; Johannis de Witt elementa curvarum linearum ; and Francisci à Schooten, Leidensis, dum viveret in Academia Lugduno-Batava matheseos professoris, tractatus de concinnandis demonstrationibus geometricis ex calculo algebraïco. All three of these works also have separate bibliographic records. See Willems, cited below.
Cf. Willems, A. Elzevier histoire et annales typographiques
Armorial bookplate of "Frederick R. Ruth" on the front pastedown. Manuscript inscriptions on the front free endpaper "Henry Farmer Glasgow" and in the same hand "This book belonged to Robert Simson (1687-1768) who was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow (1711-61). The book had previosuly belonged to John Johnstoun ... the Professor of Medicine in the University.". Manuscript inscription in a contemporary hand on the title page "Jo: Johnstoune" deleted. Manuscript marginalia in different hands throughout. Manuscript inscription on the half-title page of the second volume "Rob: Simson A.D. 1713" and "Jo: Johnstoune" deleted. Manuscript list of contents, possibly in Johnstoun's hand, on the back pastedown.
Geometry.
Netherlands Amsterdam.