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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 223.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1561 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 285 Language: Italian.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1545 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 293 Language: Italian.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 295.
Published by Francesco del Leno, Venice, 1558
Seller: FKatz Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto 129 ll. Waterstaining first 20 or so leaves and elsewhere in book. Page corners folded over first 7 leaves. Foxing and occasional stains throughout. Otherwise clean with wide margins. Numerous marginal printed calculations and geometric diagrams and proofs; extensive mathematical tables at end. Original limp vellum. Lower right corner of front cover bent over. Flyleaves worn and frayed. Overall, a nice, clean and unsophisticated copy of a book that ordinarily would suffer heavy use. Extensive mathematical aids for commercial transactions and geometry.
Published by Francesco del Leno, Venetia, 1561
Seller: Bibliophilia Books, Tampa, FL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo (21x15 cm). - 129 leaves. - Contemporary full vellum (bent, due to dryness), title in old manuscript on spine, small (2 cm) crack at bottom of spine, else fine. - Interior fine, except for light marginal darkening of some pages. - Title-page with engraved printer's device. - A profusion of printed marginalia, showing geometrical illustrations, as well as many calculations, some quite detailed. - An extremely influential and highly popular book on arithmetics for merchants, first published in 1534. An essential guide to accounting, and to business life in general, in 16th century Italy. - Adams S -1043. - Riccardi I 453.
Published by Con uno breve trattato di Geometria, per quanto a uno pratico Agrimensore si conuenga. Composto per lo acutissimo prescrutatore delle Archimediane & Euclidiane dottrine Giovanni Sfortunati da Siena. (In fine:) In Venezia, per Francesco del Leno, M.D. LXI. (1561),, Venezia, 1561
Condition: molto buono. in-4, ff. 129, (1 bianco), bel caratt. tondo. Ottima leg. 800.sca piena pelle, dorso a nervi, impressioni a secco ai piatti ad imitazione antica. Al tit. grande impresa dello stampatore con allegoria della Temperanza entro ovale. Numerosi schemi, calcoli e formule aritmetiche n.t. Precede l'opera la dedica dell'a. ad Afonso d'Este. Quarta edizione (prima Venezia, Zoppino 1534) di questo fortunato trattato popolare di aritmetica pratica, utile strumento per la gestione degli affari dei mercanti del XVI secolo. L'uso diffuso nel XVI secolo del volume come manuale aritmetico fa sì che, benché ristampato 7 volte, tutte le edizioni siano oggi estremamente rare. Ricco di spunti tratti dal Borghi e dal Feliciano, il lavoro dello Sfortunati, matematico senese vissuto nel XVI secolo, risulta particolarmente interessante per l'inserimento di tabelle mercantili numeriche e di misurazioni pratiche. Esempl. con ampi margini, ottimo. Adams S-1043. Sander 6965, note. Riccardi I, 453. Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p.174. Book.
Published by B. de Bindoni, Venice, 1545
Seller: Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc., Narberth, PA, U.S.A.
Second Edition. With many "examples illustrating the Italian business life of the sixteenth century" (Smith), this commercial arithmetic includes a section on mensuration and has tables for merchants. In original condition (two bifolia slightly browned), stamp of the Florentine bibliophile Gustavo Camillo Galletti (1805-68). Smith, Rara arithmetica 174 & 177; Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik II: 481-2; Hoock & Jeannin, Ars mercatoria: Handbücher und Traktate für den Gebrauch des Kaufmanns S20.3; EDIT16 CNCE 47811. Contemporary stiff vellum wrapper with overlapping edges (soiled, manuscript notes dated 1558 and 1559), manuscript spine title lettered vertically.
Published by (Venedig Nicolini da Sabio), 1545
Book
(21 x 15,5 cm). 130 (1w) num. Bll. Mit einigen Holzschnittdiagrammen. Halbleinwandband um 1900. Variante der wohl dritten Ausgabe der erstmals 1534 erschienenen praktischen Arithmetik für Kaufleute. -"Sfortunati wrote his treatise along the lines followed by Borghi and Feliciano. His work is fairly complete as to the operations with integers and fractions, and is satisfactory as to the examples illustrating the Italian business life of the sixteenth century. The treatise closes with some work in practical mensuration and some mercantile tables" (Smith). - "Lo Sfortunato, il cui nome figura nella famosa quistione fra Cardano e Tartaglia, viene meritamente noverato tra i migliori autori aritmetici del principio del secolo decimosesto" (Riccardi). - Breitrandiges Exemplar. Stellenweise etwas braun- bzw. fingerfleckig. Vereinzelt mit Marginalien von alter Hand und Titel mit teils gestrichenem Besitzvermerk "Hippolito Biotti", dat. 1694. Einband etwas bestoßen. - Adams S 1042; Smith, Rara 177; vgl. Riccardi I/2, 454 , 1,3 (mit abweichender Titeltypographie).
Published by per Bernardino de Bindoni Milanese, Venice, 1545
Seller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Softcover. Condition: Very good. 4to. ff. 129 (i) [last blank]. a-p? q ? Roman letter. Title within four part woodcut border, innumerable woodcut diagrams in margins, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, historiated woodcut initial, annotations in a slightly later Italian hand on fly relating to his marginal annotations of the text, Lionardo Buini in early hand at foot of title-page., early press mark on fly. Light age yellowing, a few leaves slightly browned, minor marginal foxing in places, the odd marginal spot. A very good copy, crisp and clean, with good margins, some edges uncut, in contemporary limp vellum reusing a beautiful manuscript leaf from an early twelfth-century rubricated German lectionary in double column, edges of vellum slightly torn, remains of two pairs of ties. Second edition of this influential arithmetic."Sfortunati was a popular writer, as the seven editions of his book go to prove. His work is fairly complete as to the operations with integers and fractions, and is satisfactory as to the examples illustrating the Italian business life of the 16th century. The treatise closes with some work in practical mensuration and some mercantile tables" Smith. "The elaborate introduction to Giovanni Sfortunati's 1534 New Beacon, a Book of Arithmetic pointed to these new linguistic and market conditions. Sfortunati (b. ca. 1500) introduced himself as a Sienese schoolmaster who had taught arithmetic all over Italy and Sicily. He was a native speaker of Tuscan, then, but one with broad experience of other Italian students. This self-advertisement quickly turned into a claim that he was uniquely qualified to review the older arithmetic books on the market by way of recommending his own. He praised Luca Pacioli's Summa but noted that it contained too much that was not useful for merchants. Similarly Filippo Calandri's book was very learned but did not explain elementary notions well enough to be truly useful for beginners. Sfortunati then turned to Borghi's Libro de abacho. Fifty years old and well established in the market, Borghi's manual was the principal competition for any new elementary arithmetic book in 1534. Sfortunati claimed to have read it many times, implying perhaps that he had been constrained to teach from it. He rejected it because it was written in rough Venetian dialect and described Venetian business practices that were of little use to Tuscans or other Italians. Despite his claims, however, Sfortunati's arithmetic book was also highly traditional. There was little to differentiate it from Borghi's treatment except his good Tuscan." Humanism for Sale. Making and Marketing Schoolbooks in Italy, 1450-1650. A lovely copy bound in a beautiful early vellum leaf. BM STC It. C16th. p. 624. Adams S1040. Censimento 16 CNCE 47811; Riccardi ii, 453; Smith, Rara arithmetica, p. 177. Not in Kress or Goldsmith. Italian.
Published by [Venice: Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino,], 1534., 1534
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Riccardi emphasizes the rarity of the first edition: "Questa prima ediz. e rarissima" (II, 453). The last copies of the first edition to appear at auction came up in the 1980s. OCLC notes nine copies of this edition in North America (the Huntington Library, the Burndy Library (at the Huntington), Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Columbia, the Smithsonian, the U.S. Naval Observatory, Mount Angel Abbey Library in Oregon, Lehigh University). Quarto. ff. 129, [1]. Complete with the final blank. Title within a woodcut border, divided into four panels. Title printed in black and red. Text with many mathematical calculations printed in the outer margins. Contemporary limp vellum, modern paper spine label, later front endpapers. Title a bit soiled, lower margins of first three leaves with repaired worming, lower outer corner of some leaves with an old, faded dampstain. a few light brown stains. Still, a very good copy of a rare book. First edition of this treatise on arithmetic for merchants. Sfortunati, whose dates are not recorded, was a Siena-born teacher of arithmetic who worked through much of Italy and Sicily. His book, which went into at least six more editions by the year 1568, was influential, being one of the main sources for Tartaglia's General trattato de' numeri et misure, which has been called the best treatise on arithmetic to appear in the sixteenth century Sfortunati wrote his treatise along the lines followed by Borghi and Feliciano, and in his preface he acknowledges his indebtedness to them and to 'Maestro Luca dal Borgo dell' ordine di Santo Francesco' and to the operetta di Filippo Caladri Cittadino Fiorentino. Like these authors, he was a popular writer, as the seven editions of his book go to prove. His work is fairly complete as to the operations with integers and fractions, and is satisfactory as to the examples illustrating the Italian business life of the sixteenth century" (Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p. 174). Adams S1039. De Morgan, Arithmetical books, p. 16. Stillwell 234 Tomash S90.