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BORGO, Pietro (d. after 1494). Aritmetica mercantile. Venice: Johannes Leoviler, de Hallis, 1488.
Chancery 4° (212 x 144mm). Collation: a-m8 (a1r title, a1v explanation of symbols, a2r text, m8v colophon). 96 leaves. 43 lines. Types: 1:68G, 2:135G. Arithmetical calculations printed as marginalia, as well as within the text in a variety of shapes, woodcut initials. (Title, first and last few leaves with repairs in margins, affecting a few numbers or letters in shoulder notes, some other leaves with small marginal repairs, waterstaining at beginning and end, soiling.) Modern half calf over old wooden boards (minor worming). Provenance: Fr. Giovanni Marra and Mateus Colla (16th/17th-century inscriptions).
Second edition of an important Renaissance handbook of arithmetic for merchants. The author was a mathematician from Venice. Because of their practical nature, all early editions of such texts are RARE. HCR 3661; GW 4937; Klebs 205.2; Smith(RaraAr) p. 19-20; IGI 2010; BMC V 406; Goff B-1035.
Chancery 4° (212 x 144mm). Collation: a-m8 (a1r title, a1v explanation of symbols, a2r text, m8v colophon). 96 leaves. 43 lines. Types: 1:68G, 2:135G. Arithmetical calculations printed as marginalia, as well as within the text in a variety of shapes, woodcut initials. (Title, first and last few leaves with repairs in margins, affecting a few numbers or letters in shoulder notes, some other leaves with small marginal repairs, waterstaining at beginning and end, soiling.) Modern half calf over old wooden boards (minor worming). Provenance: Fr. Giovanni Marra and Mateus Colla (16th/17th-century inscriptions).
Second edition of an important Renaissance handbook of arithmetic for merchants. The author was a mathematician from Venice. Because of their practical nature, all early editions of such texts are RARE. HCR 3661; GW 4937; Klebs 205.2; Smith(RaraAr) p. 19-20; IGI 2010; BMC V 406; Goff B-1035.
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