THE
ELEMENTS
OF
EUCLID,
VIZ.
THE FIRST SIX BOOKS,
TOGETHER WITH THE
ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH.
The Errors, by which THEON, or others, have long ago Vitiated
these Books, are Corrected,
And some of EUCLID'S Demonstrations are Restored.
ALSO,
THE BOOK OF
EUCLID'S DATA,
In like manner Corrected.

BY
ROBERT SIMSON, M. D.
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow.

TO THIS EDITION ARE ALSO ANNEXED,
ELEMENTS OF PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY.

GLASGOW:
PRINTED AND SOLD BY ANDREW FOULIS, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY;
SOLD ALSO BY ROBERT CROSS, NEAR THE COLLEGE; JAMES
DUNCAN, DUNLOP AND WILSON, AND BY J. AND
W. SHAWS, BOOKSELLERS.
M.DCC.LXXXI.
1781

***Please note*** 
The overall title page of this work is lacking, although the details above are correct for this volume. Sectional titles pages are present with the publisher's details and date. 

Bound in full contemporary calf and measures approx 21.8cm x 14cm x 3.8cm. The binding is surface worn and scuffed/scratched, and the extremities are bumped, creased, chipped and peeling, with loss. The hinges are cracked, and thus the front board hangs by a single thread and the rear board is shaky. Headbands broken. Internally, as can be seen from the images the pastedowns and contents are heavily annotated, smudged, scribbled, marked, underlined, and sketched, and with some embellished diagrams, and with ownership names, by an early student. The front and rear free endpapers are lacking, as is the half title, title and the first leaf of prelims. The remaining leaf of prelims has a portion lacking from the lower fore edge corner. The contents, aside from all the ink and pencil notes/sketches/smudges etc, have a little light scattered foxing and thumbing. The folding plates are worn to edges and a bit creased and also have notes and annotations, see images. 

[1], 466; [2], 38 p.

Lacking half title, title and the first leaf of prelims.

A well loved, read, and used, edition of the the principles of Euclidean geometry, number theory, and geometric proofs, edited by Robert Simson, a celebrated Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow, here printed at the Foulis Press in Glasgow.

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