拍品 609
  • 609

SPAENLIN, ARITHMETICA, AUGSBURG, 1546

估價
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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描述

  • Arithmetica, künstlicher Rechnung lustige Exempel. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1546
FIRST EDITION, Small 8vo (150 x 95mm.), title printed in red and black, diagrams in the text, recent vellum-backed boards, lacking final blank leaf V8

來源

Reiss & Auvermann, Auktion 46, 15-18 October 1991, item 38, DM12,000; bought from Hans-Horst Koch, Berlin, 1994

出版

Tomash & Williams S169; Hoock & Jeannin S25.1; USTC 612994 (2 copies); J.W.L. Glaisher, “On the early history of the signs + and - and on the early German arithmeticians” in Messenger of mathematics 51 (1922), pp.32-33, 53, etc.; cf. Smith, Rara arithmetica, p.271 (knew only Nuremberg edition of 1566)

Condition

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拍品資料及來源

RARE, only two other copies being recorded: an incomplete copy (lacking A8, T1, T8, V1), presented by J.W.L. Glaisher to Cambridge University Library; and a copy in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Glaisher describes it as “an ordinary commercial arithmetic”, following Riese in using the sign ÷ for minus, and “minder” in expressing money or weights (rather than “minus”).