Mathematics.- Euclid. [Opera], first collected edition, translated by Bartolommeo Zamberti, collation: [10], A-Z AA-EE8 FF6 lacking final blank, fine partially calligraphic title with woodcut of St. John the Baptist, woodcut device at foot of final leaf, A1 with superb white-on-black 3-sided woodcut border and with woodcut initial printed in red and part of text also printed in red, numerous other woodcut initials, mostly 4-line but occasionally larger, woodcut diagrams to margins, a couple just shaved, last few leaves with some marginal repairs but text block and diagrams largely unaffected, browning to some leaves and stain to some lower corners, but still a crisp and overall handsome copy, later calf over half-exposed wooden boards with clasps, spine with raised bands, folio (300 x 211mm.), Venice, Johannes Tacuinus, 1505.*** The very rare first edition of Euclid’s collected works, translating all of his extant Greek texts: the Elements, Perspectiva, Phaenomena, Specularia, and Data. An important book, the Opera contains the first translation of the Elements from the original Greek, and the first printing of the remaining texts. The Perspectiva is the first written work on Optics, and the Phenomena appears to be the first application of spherical geometry to astronomy."...a first rate example of the Venetian book...Among the rarest of early Euclids” (Thomas Stanford).Provenance: Alfredo Dusmet de Smours (1879-1964, bookplate).Literature: Adams E-972; BM/STC Italy p.238; Thomas-Stanford 3; Essling 283.