RAMUS, Petrus (1515-1572). Arithmeticae libri duo: geometriae septem et viginti. Basel: Eusebius & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1580. Small 4° (214 x 165mm.) Printer’s device on title, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, ornamental initials. (Title very lightly soiled, light and even browning.) Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin-backed boards, boards covered with medieval manuscript leaf, painted in grey, large hand-coloured initial showing through on front cover (lightly soiled). Provenance: extensive old manuscript annotations in margins and on endpaper.
RAMUS, Petrus (1515-1572). Arithmeticae libri duo: geometriae septem et viginti. Basel: Eusebius & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1580. Small 4° (214 x 165mm.) Printer’s device on title, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, ornamental initials. (Title very lightly soiled, light and even browning.) Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin-backed boards, boards covered with medieval manuscript leaf, painted in grey, large hand-coloured initial showing through on front cover (lightly soiled). Provenance: extensive old manuscript annotations in margins and on endpaper. Third edition, first published in Basel in 1569. Pierre de la Ramée lectured philosophy at Paris and briefly at Heidelberg. He wrote works on arithmetic, geometry, optics and mathematics in general. Adams R-70; Smith I, 209; VD online L 452.
RAMUS, Petrus (1515-1572). Arithmeticae libri duo: geometriae septem et viginti. Basel: Eusebius & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1580. Small 4° (214 x 165mm.) Printer’s device on title, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, ornamental initials. (Title very lightly soiled, light and even browning.) Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin-backed boards, boards covered with medieval manuscript leaf, painted in grey, large hand-coloured initial showing through on front cover (lightly soiled). Provenance: extensive old manuscript annotations in margins and on endpaper.
RAMUS, Petrus (1515-1572). Arithmeticae libri duo: geometriae septem et viginti. Basel: Eusebius & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1580. Small 4° (214 x 165mm.) Printer’s device on title, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, ornamental initials. (Title very lightly soiled, light and even browning.) Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin-backed boards, boards covered with medieval manuscript leaf, painted in grey, large hand-coloured initial showing through on front cover (lightly soiled). Provenance: extensive old manuscript annotations in margins and on endpaper. Third edition, first published in Basel in 1569. Pierre de la Ramée lectured philosophy at Paris and briefly at Heidelberg. He wrote works on arithmetic, geometry, optics and mathematics in general. Adams R-70; Smith I, 209; VD online L 452.
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