- 154
Manzoni, Domenico.
Estimate
3,500 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- La brieve risolutione di aritmetica, universale in qual si voglia negotio, dove intervenga numero, peso, & misura. Con laquale si perviene all’intelligentia della valuta di qualunque cosa appretiata a lire & soldi di moneta. Venice: (al poggio delle gride. In Rialto), 1553
8vo (168 x 105mm.), architectural woodcut border on title-page, elaborate woodcut initials, contemporary half vellum, sides covered with blue speckled paper, lower outer corner of title-page repaired, fore-margin of one leaf cut away with minimal loss (printed rule border shaved, one digit lost), lower corner of one leaf missing (paper flaw), one leaf partly detached
Literature
Censimento 16 CNCE 63736; not in Einaudi, Kress or Goldsmiths
Catalogue Note
first edition, very rare. Manzoni, a professional book-keeper, taught penmanship, abacus and book-keeping. The present work contains his lettera mercantesca and serves as a ready-reckoner for merchants. His other works include Quaderno doppio of 1540, on accountancy, and Abachetto nuovo, also of 1553, a manual of arithmetic.