Lot n° 56

CLAVIUS, Christophorus. Aritmetica prattica... tradotta da Latino in Italiano dal Signor Lorenzo Castellano Patritio Romano. Roma, Domenico Basa, 1586.

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Description
Small 8vo, mm. 150x100; Binding of the XVIIth century in full vellum, marbled inside cover, red edges; pp. 286, [18]. Jesuitic device on Titlepage and at the end, woodcut Initials and ornaments. Note of ancient owner at the end paper “Ex Libris Petri Robecchi Papiensis”. On the second end paper leaf long note in Latin.

RAREFIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Valuable compendium of elementary arithmetic of the German Jesuit Christoph Klau, a professor of mathematics at the Jesuit College in Rome; the first Latin edition appeared, increasingly for the types of Basa, in 1583.
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