Nuovo Lume Libro De Arithmetica
by Sfortunati, Giovanni
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Narberth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Venice: B. de Bindoni, 1545. Contemporary stiff vellum wrapper with overlapping edges (soiled, manuscript notes dated 1558 and 1559), manuscript spine title lettered vertically. Second Edition. With many "examples illustrating the Italian business life of the sixteenth century" (Smith), this commercial arithmetic includes a section on mensuration and has tables for merchants. In original condition (two bifolia slightly browned), stamp of the Florentine bibliophile Gustavo Camillo Galletti (1805-68).
¶Smith, Rara arithmetica 174 & 177; Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik II: 481-2; Hoock & Jeannin, Ars mercatoria: Handbücher und Traktate für den Gebrauch des Kaufmanns S20.3; EDIT16 CNCE 47811.
¶Smith, Rara arithmetica 174 & 177; Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik II: 481-2; Hoock & Jeannin, Ars mercatoria: Handbücher und Traktate für den Gebrauch des Kaufmanns S20.3; EDIT16 CNCE 47811.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bruce McKittrick Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07739
- Title
- Nuovo Lume Libro De Arithmetica
- Author
- Sfortunati, Giovanni
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary stiff vellum wrapper with overlapping edges (soiled, manuscript notes dated 1558 and 1559), manuscript spine title
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- B. de Bindoni
- Place of Publication
- Venice
- Date Published
- 1545
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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- Vellum
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