Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/678
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ie 193 194 195 196 Ovid. De arte amandi; De remedio amoris, roman letter, 56 leaves, text surrounded by Merula’s commentary, device at end, woodcut witials, worm-hole at end; Heroides cum commen- tariis Ant. Volsci & Urbert. Clerici, roman letter, 96 leaves, text surrounded by commentary, woodcut (somewhat defaced) on title, woodcut witials; Tibullus, Catullus, and Propertius. Opera cum commentariis, roman letter, 181 leaves, wants last leaf (blank), text surrounded by Commentary, device at end, woodcut wutials, water-stained ; bound together, original wooden boards (one broken), pigskin back, brass clasps and catches | Hain,* 12220 + *12200 + *4766| folio. Venice, Joannes Tacuinus, 10 July, 1494; 24 Jan. 1497; 19 May, 1500 [ PacotoLt1] DE Burco (Lucas) SOMMA DI ARITMETICA GEOMETRIA PROPORZIONI E PROPORZIONALITA, gothic letter, 2 vol. in 1, 308 ZZ, first page of text printed wn red and black within a FINE WHITE ON BLACK WOODCUT BORDER, some hundreds of woodcuts and woodcut diagrams in the margins, full-page diagram on 12 recto printed in red and black, woodcut initials, one containing a figure said to be a portrait of the author, quire a (first gath- ering of Part II) inserted between ff. 152 and 153 of Part I, small stain on 04 verso, marginal figures on © 5 verso just touched, marginal worm-hole at end touching two diagrams, apart from these trifling flaws a VERY FINE COPY, measuring 307 mm. by 215 mm. old panelled calf, gilt centre-preces [| Hain- Copinger, 4105; Pellechet, 3060 (one wnperfect copy only); Proctor, *5168 | folio. J. & H. Paganinus de Paganinis, 10-20 Nov. 14[9]4 It is sometimes called the first work on arithmetic printed ... it is certainly the first printed on Algebra, and probably the first on book-keeping.”—De Morgan. “The first great work on mathematics printed.”,—Smith, Rara Arithmetica. Palladio (Andrea) L’Architettura, engraved title and woodcuts, vellum, Venice, 1642; and another folto. (2) Palladio (A.) The First Book of Architecture ... Translated out of Italian ... by Pr. Le Muet. Translated out of French by G[odfrey] R[ichards], First EDITION, plates, calf gilt, 1663; The First Book... The Eighth Edition, plates, half calf, 1716 ; sold not subject to return 4to. (2) Palladio (A.) The Four Books of Architecture, four engraved titles and 212 plates, calf, damaged folio. Isaac Ware, 1738
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