Lot 311
Tagliente, Girolamo
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 January 2015 at 11:00 GMT
£2,500
Description
Opera che insegna a fare ogni ragione de mercatia & a pertegare le terre con arte giometrical intitolata componimento di arithmetica. [Venice: Niccolò Zoppino], 1525. 8vo, woodcut title-page printed white on black, woodcut illustrations, nineteenth-century red morocco gilt by Leighton of Brewer Street, spine gilt in compartments, t.e.g., some slight worming and internal soiling
Footnote
Note: A highly influential work which subsequently shaped the teaching of arithmetic.