拍品 342
  • 342

LEFÈVRE D'ETAPLES, IN ARITHMETICA BOETHI EPITOME, BASEL, 1553, PAPER WRAPPER, BOX

估價
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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描述

  • In Arithmetica Boethi epitome, una cum difficiliorum locorum explicationibus & figuris... nunc per Ioannem Scheubelium adornatis & adiectis. Accessit Christierni Morssiani Arithmetica practica... Basel: Heinrich Petri, (August 1553)
8vo (162 x 102mm.), woodcut initials and diagrams, later marbled paper wrapper, folding box with spine tooled in period style, some deckle edges

來源

bought from Carlo Alberta Chiesa, Milan, 1989

出版

Tomash & Williams B187; USTC 664777; VD16 L954

Condition

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拍品資料及來源

A new edition of Lefèvre's Epitome of Boethius, edited and illustrated with diagrams by the mathematician Johannes Scheubel. Morsing (c.1485-1560) had studied in Louvain before becoming professor at the University of Copenhagen. His introduction to arithmetic was first published in Cologne in 1528.