PIGNORIA, DE SERVIS, AUGSBURG, 1613

FIRST EDITION, 4to (200 x 153mm.), woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut illustrations in the text, contemporary blue paper wrappers, title repaired at upper corner, A2 with lower corner torn away, upper wrapper becoming detached

bought from B. & L. Rootenberg, Sherman Oaks, CA, 1990

Tomash & Williams P82; Origins of Cyberspace 14; RISM B VI, 2, p.654; VD17 23:231357C

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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This treatise on slavery also serves as a compendium of everyday Roman objects, of interest to the present collection for the description and illustration of the Roman abacus. The Ad insigne Pinus press was founded by a group of scholars at the St Anna Gymnasium, Augsburg, and was active between 1594 and 1619.