The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.Ĭontrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. 1993, lot 33).In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Provenance: a member of the Lucio family of Vicenza (arms), presumably the original owner – a few contemporary annotations, including to one diagram – Sir George Shuckburgh (armorial bookplate sale Christie’s 24 Nov. 18th-century English polished calf gilt, yellow edges. 2-line incipit on a2 printed in red, three-sided woodcut historiated border and matching initial P on a2, both heightened in pale red by hand, armorial shield completed, all other woodcut initials white-on-black, numerous woodcut and type-rule diagrams in the margins (border just shaved at lower edge, ink-stain on d4r affecting a few letters, minor damp-staining towards the end, some spotting). 136 leaves (of 138, without first and final blanks).
The editio princeps was not published until 1533 (Basel: Johann Herwagen). The Vicenza edition is much rarer than Ratdolt’s in the last 45 years only 4 other copies have appeared at auction, including the Honeyman and Beltrame copies. In printing the first edition in 1482 Ratdolt brilliantly solved the technical problems of relating, if not integrating, illustrations to text, and the Vicenza printers understandably copied his idea, setting short lines to provide adequate space for the diagrams in the right-hand margin. Euclid's Elements is said to have 'exercised an influence upon the human mind greater than that of any other work except the Bible' (DSB). Second edition, rarer than the first, of the standard medieval recension of the text.
Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea and Gulielmus de Papia. 1st half 12th century), revised by Campanus of Novara (d. Translated from Greek and Arabic into Latin by Adelard of Bath (fl.
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