90-359
(Calandri,P.
Arithmetica. Florenz, Lorenzo Morgiani e Giovanni Petri da Magonza 1491). Kl.8°. Mit einigen Textholzschn. u. geometrischen Fig., sowie 7 S. mit Holzschn.-Bordüren. 83 (von 104) Bl. Lose, in mod. Prgt.-Decke u. Lwd.-Kassette.
IGI 2352. BMC VI, 681. Choix 4247. Hain 4324. GW 5884. Goff C34. Rhodes 155. Sander 1523. Riccardi I/1°, 208. Smith Rara Arith. 47-49. Warren 298-299. Kristeller, Early Florentine Woodcuts, 77 a. Lippmann, Wood engravings, p. 28. Morgan, No. 1: "This book very few have mentioned at all and fewer still from inspections". The first edition of the first printed Italian arithmetic with illustrations accompanying problems, and the first to give long diviston in the modern form known to the Italian writers by the name 'a danda'. Pollard in his 'Early Illustrated Books' gives a long description of this book (p. 109). This important work contains tables of exdiange of money, calculations of money and weight and other problems in commercial arithmetic. - Beschn., leicht fleckig. - Gekauft wie besichtigt.
