Statics.- Monte (Guidobaldo del) In duos Archimedis Aequeponderantium libros paraphrasis, woodcut illustrations, errata at end, embossed library stamp to first 3 ff. with small hole to title, Pesaro, Hieronymum Concordiam, 1588, bound with Scaletta (Carlo Cesare) Scuola mecanico-speculativo-pratica, additional engraved title and 12 plates by Giuseppe Moretti after Scaletta, Bologna, Constantino Pisani, 1711, together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, printed titles with woodcut vignettes, woodcut initials and decorations, ink inscription to front endpaper listing the titles contained, scattered spotting, browning to endpapers, 18th century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with green morocco label, some rubbing and bumping, upper joint split and cover working loose, lower joint starting, folio.

⁂ Regarded as the most important work on statics since antiquity, Del Monte’s Paraphrasis played a crucial role in transmitting and systematising Archimedean mechanics for the early modern period, exerting a lasting influence on Italian scientists—notably Galileo, who acknowledged his intellectual debt to Monte.

Provenance: Macclesfield Library (bookplate and embossed stamp).