Problema austriacum plus vltra quadratura circuli
By: auctore P. Gregorio a Sto. Vincentio Soc: Iesu
Contributors: Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680, printer; Meurs, Johannes van, 1579-1639, printer; Galle, Cornelis, 1615-1678, engraver; Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675, illustrator; Maseres, Francis, 1731-1824, former owner; Inner Temple (London, England). Library
Publisher: Apud Ioannem et Iacobum Meursios.
Published: 1647
Place of publication: Antuerpiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1225
Subjects: Circle-squaring; Early works to 1800; Conic sections; Geometry
Other titles: Problema avstriacvm plvs ultra quadratvra circvli; Quadraturae circuli tomus secundus; Qvadratvrae circvli tomvs secvndvs; P. Gregorii a Sto Vincento Opvs geometricvm qvadratvrae circvli et sectionvm coni decem libris comprehensum; P. Gregorii a Sto Vincento Opus geometricum quadraturae circuli et sectionum coni decem libris comprehensum; Opvs geometricvm qvadratvrae circvli et sectionvm coni decem libris comprehensum; Opus geometricum quadraturae circuli et sectionum coni decem libris comprehensum
Notes: "Cum priuilegio Caesareo et Regis Hispaniarum."

Engraved, illustrated, allegorical t.p., signed: "Abr. à Diepenbeke delin.; Corn. Galle iunior sculpsit."

Half title reads: P. Gregorii a Sto Vincentio Opus geometricum quadraturae circuli et sectionum coni decem libris comprehensum.

Title-page of v.2 reads: Quadraturae circuli tomus secundus. Auctore P. Gregorio Sancto Vincentio Societatis Iesu ...

Collation: fol.: v.1: a-b⁴ *-3*⁴ 4*⁶ A-3T⁴ 3V² [$3 ( -a1, a2, 3V2; +4*4)--signed (misprinting 3R2 as 3R)]; 288 leaves: p. [52] 1-523 [blank]; v. 2: 3X-5Z⁴ ²2A-²3P⁴ ²3Q⁶⁻¹ ($3 (-3X1) signed]; 353 leaves: p. [525] [blank] 527-1225 [4] [blank] (-537, 954) misprinting 856-857 as 854-855, 924 as 942).

In some copies, leaf 3R2 is signed correctly, p. 537 is paginated, p. 856-857 are printed correctly.

Woodcut printer's device (t.p. of v.2); initials; tail-pieces.

Errata: p. [954] and p. [2]-[4] at end.

Backer-Sommervogel, VII, 440