Nuovo Lume Libro De Arithmetica.
Venice, B. de Bindoni 1544 [colophon: 1545].
4to. 129, [1 blank] leaves. Calculations and tables, sixty-one woodcut diagrams, the title in a four-block frame with Archimedes, Euclid, grotesques, musical putti, etc.
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.
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