[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of a scarce treatise on commercial arithmetic. Venice: 1534

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(MATHEMATICS) Sfortunati, Giovanni. NUOVO LUME. LIBRO DI ARITHMETICA... Con uno Breve Trattato di Geometria... Composto per lo Acutissimo Prescrutatore delle Archimediane & Euclidiane Dottrine. (Venice: Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino) 1534. 4to. ff.129,(1). With the final blank leaf. Title within a woodcut border divided into 4 panels. Title printed in red & black. Text with many mathematical calculations printed in the outer margins. Old vellum, later paper spine label. Title a bit soiled and lower margins of first 3 leaves with repaired worming; lower outer corner of some leaves with an old faded water stain.         $4,500.00 (trade discount allowed)

First edition of this very scarce treatise on commercial arithmetic. There are at least 4 more editions by the year 1568. Riccardi, column 353-354; Adams S1039.

 

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