ARITHMETIC, A COLLECTION OF 4 VOLUMES, PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS

i. Cock, David. De cyfer-konst, noyt voor desen den leerlingen grondiger, noch duydelijcker voorgestelt. Dordrecht: Abraham Andriesz, 1664, small 8vo, half-title, old vellum, (bought from Theo de Boer, Zwolle, 1998), [T&W C105; Hoock & Jeannin II/C26.13; Hoogendoorn p.220 CockvE01; STCN 831607521], minor dampstaining and worming to top margin, half-title with marginal repair, vellum soiledii. Hoornaert, Charles. Arithmetica, ofte Reken-konste, beschreven, op d'alder kortste, ende bondigste maniere. Deventer: Coenraed Thomassen, 1641, FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, old floral paper wrappers, modern folding calf box, (Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, ink stamps; bought from Ludwig Rosenthal, Hilversum, 1993), [T&W H157; Hoock & Jeannin II/H27.1 ("nicht aufgefunden"); Hoogendoorn p.497 HoormA01; STCN 311822681], worming, many leaves cropped, worniii. Rees, Kasparus Franciscus de (c.1690-c.1763). Regle generale d'arithmetique ou Nouvelle method. The Hague: Isaac van der Kloot, 1737, small 8vo, cloth-backed brown boards, (bought from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Worcester, MA, 1993), [T&W R48; STCN 29771907], lacking final blank, rebacked and rubbediv. Tacquet, André (1612-1660). Arithmeticæ theoria et praxis. Editio ultima correctior. Antwerp: Jacob van Meurs, 1682, small 8vo, engraved folding plate, slightly later calf, (bought from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Worcester, MA, 2001), [T&W T2], rubbed

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David Cock was born in Enkhuizen and became a schoolmaster in Arnhem; the first edition of this textbook is supposed to have been published c. 1640 (no copy is known); the present edition was revised by S. Cock and corrected by Isaac Le Duc, a French schoolmaster in Dordrecht. Charles Hoornaert was a schoolteacher in Deventer; apart from the copy of this book, in Deventer, Athenaeumbibliotheek, H 1845 (perhaps the copy recorded by Bierens de Haan 3132), this first edition is unknown. A second edition published at Deventer in 1659 is known from a single copy.