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Freiburg im Breisgau: Johannes Faber, 1539. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (157 x 98 mm). 76, [2] pp., including woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. Signatures: A-E8. Imprint 'Apud Friburgum Brisgoicum anno. M.D.XXXIX. Excudebat Ioannes Faber Emmeus Iuliacensis' on colophon on E7r. 20th-century cardboards, gilt-lettered spine, lower margin partially uncut. Text little browned, minor spotting and dust-soiling. Provenance: Kiefer & Moirandat, Basel (26-27 April 1996, lot 108); Erwin Tomash (booklabel to front pastedown). Very good copy. ---- Smith, Rara arithmetica, pp.191-192; Tomash & Williams G49; USTC 631941; VD16 L2670 (cf. L2669, different setting of the title-page). FIRST EDITION. A theoretical text treating quadrivial mathematics in accordance with Boethian number theory, with a lengthy excursus on the correct grammatical use of numerals; at the end is a short "compendiolum" on proportions. It is one of the author's… Read More

Johannes Faber, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1539. *** First edition. Heinrich Loriti (1488-1565), aka Glareanus, after the name of his native village Glaris, in Switzerland, was professor of mathematics and philosophy at Basel, then in College de France, in Paris. He later taught at Basel and Freiburg. His great friend Erasmus called him 'the champion of Swiss humanism'. He wrote on arithmetic, music and geometry. In this book, he first treats of notation, including the Greek, Roman, and Arabic systems; then of the elementary operations with integers; then, briefly, of progressions and proportion. Smith, Rara arithmetica, pp. 191-192. Tomash & Williams G49; USTC 631941. Hand note on 4 lines at the bottom of the title page, dated 1539 : "Hoc epitome G. Rorkenparhio C. à Wehingen ... " Signature "Lebegue", dated 1602. Some dampings here and their. Good copy. *** In-8 de 76, (2) pp., 1 f. bl. Vélin. (Reliure ancienne.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -… Read More