SFORTUNATI, NUOVO LUME, VENICE, 1534, OLD REUSED LIMP VELLUM

4to (214 x 152mm.), title printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, later limp vellum reusing a leaf of manuscript liturgical music, some deckle edges, binding repaired and now tight, lacking 2 pairs of ties

bought from C.E. Rappaport, Rome, 1992

Tomash & Williams S90; Edit16 41145; Hoock & Jeannin S20.1; Riccardi ii, 453; Sander 6965; Smith, Rara arithmetica p.174; USTC 856133; Van Egmond pp.329-330

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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FIRST EDITION of Sfortunati's treatise on commercial arithmetic, which was reprinted in Venice several times in the 1540s and 1560s. Sfortunati, from Siena, based his work on that of Pacioli, Borghi and Calandri, who are all named in his introduction.