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APPLIED MATHEMATICS. BARTOLI, COSIMO. Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini, secondo le vere regole d'Euclide, & de gli altri più lodati scrittori... Venetia (per Francesco Franceschi Sanese) 1564. Small 4:o (226x170 mm.). (4), 1-141, (3) ll. Title within richly figurative border (larger brownspot in inner margin, some other spotting, signature dated 1600 in lower margin), nearly fullpage woodcut portrait, 2 folding woodcut plates (some foxing and spotting), many woodcuts in text. Later (early 20th century) brown half morocco, spine in six compartments, somewhat faded, red edges. (bound by Hedberg). One leaf (3) mended in outer margin. Partly some dampstaining, some foxing and spotting, about 5 leaves harder. First edition. Cosimo Bartoli (1503 - 1572), Italian diplomat, mathematician, philologist, and humanist. He worked and lived in Rome and Florence and took minor orders. He was a friend of architect and writer Giorgio Vasari and helped him to get his Vite ready for publication. Bartoli worked in diplomatic circles, including as secretary to Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici and as diplomatic agent for Duke Cosimo I (Wikipedia). From the library of Carl Sahlin. Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy. He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works' Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters' Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.