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Libro d'Aritmetica e Geometria Napels Lapazzaja (Lapazzaia) 1601

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Rare math book 1601 | Libro d’Aritmetica e Geometria, Napels, Tarquinio Longo, 1601, (6)+205+(2) pp. WITH Nuova et facil Prattica di Abaco da Givlio della Gatta, Napels Tarquinio Longo 1601, p. 193-202 and 205. Incomplete but rare copy.

Name: Rare math book 1601 | Libro d'Aritmetica e Geometria, Napels, Tarquinio Longo, 1601, (6)+205+(2) pp. WITH Nuova et facil Prattica di Abaco da Givlio della Gatta, Napels Tarquinio Longo 1601, p. 193-202 and 205. Incomplete but rare copy.
SKU: 70087
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Rare Italian early seventeenth-century Italian arithmetic and geometry manual, representing the practical abbaco tradition that educated merchants, bankers, surveyors, and officials in commercial mathematics. Giorgio Lapazzaja’s work was one of the most influential Italian mathematical textbooks of its time, covering arithmetic, geometry, accounting, currency conversion, and commercial calculations, and reflects the continuing legacy of Fibonacci’s mathematical tradition. Text in Italian.

Titlepage: Libro d’Aritmetica e Geometria, dell’ Abbate Giorgio Lapazzaja, Canonico Monopolitano e Protonotario Apostolico. Nuovamente in quest’ultima impressione espurgato da molti errori, et arricchito d’una pratica d’Abbaco, non meno utilissima, che necessaria.

Full contemporary vellum binding in good condition except for some small stainsand a small hole on the spine. Quarto edition, in -4, 20 x 15 cm. Restoration in the bottom corners of page 5/6 adn page 7/8. Pages 35-38 loose as the bookblock is loose on that part. Missing Q2 and Q3, R2, R3 and R4, (so missing p. 123-126, 131-136, p. 203 and 204 and 2 pages of the Tavola. Last text page severely damaged. Collation if complete: [cross]4 A-2D4

Provenance: handwritten inscription on pastedown: Pinto Giuseppe Stigliano Matera. On titlepage stamp of former owner, yet unidentified. On titlepage also a handwritten name: Pinto Nicola Geometra.

[NL] Op de titelpagina: Boek over de rekenkunde en meetkunde van abt Giorgio Lapazzaja, kanunnik van Monopoli en apostolisch protonotaris. In deze laatste druk gezuiverd van vele fouten en uitgebreid met een praktische handleiding voor het abakusrekenen, die even nuttig als noodzakelijk is. Een van de bekendste Italiaanse rekenboeken (libri d’abbaco) uit de late zestiende eeuw, eerste druk 1594, daarna meerdere herdrukken. Helaas incompleet maar toch nog steeds waardevol en zeldzaam. Giorgio Lapazzaja was kanunnik van Monopoli (Apulië), wiskundige en auteur van praktische leerboeken.

SKU: 70087

€ 436,00 (€ 400,00 ex. btw)

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