Sfortunati, Giovanni

4to (212 x 152mm.), title within woodcut border, woodcut diagrams, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, contemporary limp vellum reusing a manuscript leaf from an early twelfth-century German lectionary, some edges uncut, a few manuscript annotations, a few leaves slightly browned or foxed, edges of vellum slightly torn, lacking both pairs of ties

Lionardo Buini, inscription at foot of title-page

Censimento 16 CNCE 47811; Riccardi ii, 453; Smith, Rara arithmetica, p. 177

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First published in 1534, Sfortunati's treatise on arithmetic was republished four times in Venice between 1544 and 1568.