PACIOLI, LUCA. C.1445-1514.

[Divina proportione. Opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria. Ove ciascun studioso de philosophia: prospective picture sculptura: architectura: musica: e alter mathematice. Venice: Alessandro and Paganino de' Paganini, June 1509.]

[Divina proportione. Opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria. Ove ciascun studioso de philosophia: prospective picture sculptura: architectura: musica: e alter mathematice. Venice: Alessandro and Paganino de' Paganini, June 1509.]
Folio (278 x 198 mm). 51 leaves only (comprising pp. 1-27, complete text of "pars secundus" and 24 woodcut illustrations of geometrical figures numbered 22-45). 19th-century boards; folding case.

FIRST EDITION of the complete text of "pars secundus" of this fundamental work on Renaissance geometry with woodcuts of geometrical shapes cut from designs by Leonardo da Vinci. Adams P-7; Mortimer Italian 346.