拍品 73
  • 73

BOETHIUS, ARITHMETICA, PARIS, 1521

估價
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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描述

  • Arithmetica duobus discreta libris; adjecto commentario; Mysticam numerorum applicationem perstrigente, declarata. (Paris): Simon de Colines, (11 July 1521)
Folio (275 x 200mm.), woodcut border and device on title-page, white-on-black woodcut criblé initials, woodcut diagrams, old vellum, some minor dampstaining, last few leaves frayed at foot, part of spine missing

來源

bought from Martayan Lan, New York, 1987

出版

Tomash & Williams B185; BP16 104188; Renouard, Colines, p.15; Smith, Rara arithmetica, p.31; USTC 145371

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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拍品資料及來源

This is the first edition with the commentary of Gérard Roussel (1480-1555), a former pupil of Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples, under whose guidance he edited the present work and translated from the Greek Aristotle’s Magna Moralia (1522). "As a piece of typography… this is one of the best editions of Boethius" (Smith).