ARITHMETICAL TEXTBOOKS, 4 VOLUMES IN GERMAN

i. Hemeling, Johann (1610-1694). Hannoversch Arithmetischer Anfang, oder kleines Rechnebuch. Goslar: Nikolaus Duncker, to be sold by Joachim Rosenhagen, [1656?], 8vo, printed music on verso of title-page (containing the soprano and bass parts of a song), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, full-page woodcut, errata and multiple blanks at end, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, blue edges, (Pie Patienter Prudenter, Sum Andreae Ruperti Cimbec?, Sax., inscription dated 1663; Earls of Macclesfield, bookplate, sale in these rooms, 4 November 2004, lot 1011, £750, Erwin Tomash), [T&W Ad19; Hoock & Jeannin II/13.1; not in Vd17], rebacked and repairedii. Pescheck, Christian (1676-1744). Selbstlehrender Trigonometra, Oder Dreyeck-Mässer: Welcher Aller gradlinichten Triangul, ihre Winckel und Linien, vermittelst derer Tabularum Sinuum, Tangentium und Secantium, als auch Logarithmorum. Bautzen [Budissin]: David Richter, 1730, 8vo, woodcut plate, woodcut diagrams in text, vellum, (bought from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Worcester, MA, 1996), [T&W P52; VD18 15320464], minor browning, slight worming at end, front hinge starting, vellum slightly spottediii. Resen, Hans Poulsen (1561-1638). Scholia succincta et facilia, in arithmeticam Gemmæ Frisii. Wittenberg: Andreas Rüdinger for Zacharias Schurer, 1611, 8vo, 3 pp. of tables and errata at end, modern calf, (bought from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Worcester, MA, 1993), [T&W G38; USTC 2153285 (3 copies); not in VD17], browning, R2 cropped at fore-edgeiv. Walther, Johann Friedrich. Praktisches Rechenbuch für Stadt- und Land-Schulen besonders in den königl. preußisch und angrenzenden Staaten. Greifswald: Johann Heinrich Eckhardt, 1795, 8vo, errata leaf at end, contemporary boards, (Großherzogliche Bibliothek Neustrelitz, ink stamp; bought from Gerhard Renner, Albstadt-Tailfingen, 2000), [T&W W9; not in VD18], rubbed

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Rare arithmetic of Johann Hemeling, Schreib- und Rechenmeister at Hannover, conferred the title of Imperial Poet Laureate in 1656. An edition cited by Murhard dated 1655 is otherwise unknown; this undated edition printed at Hannover by Joachim Rosenhagen c. 1656 has almost disappeared: no copy is yet recorded by the German national bibliography (VD17), and only a copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has been located elsewhere.