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TARTAGLIA, NICCOLO. La Terza[-Sesta] Parte del General Trattato de Numeri et Misure. Parts 3-6 (of 6) in one volume. 3 woodcut portraits of
TARTAGLIA, NICCOLO. La Terza[-Sesta] Parte del General Trattato de Numeri et Misure. Parts 3-6 (of 6) in one volume. 3 woodcut portraits of Tartaglia printed from the same block; numerous woodcut text diagrams. [4], 51, [1]; [4], 63, [1]; [4], 90; [4], 44 leaves. Folio, old vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; some sidenotes and diagrams slightly cropped, light marginal dampstaining throughout, scattered early marginal scrawls and doodles, title and upper half of next leaf supplied in facsimile in part 3. Venice: Curtio Troiano, 1560
- Notes: first edition. "There is no other treatise that gives as much information concerning the arithmetic of the sixteenth century, either as to theory or application. The life of the people, the customs of the merchants, the struggles to improve arithmetic, are all set forth by Tartaglia in an extended but interesting fashion"--Rara Arithmetica, page 278. Honeyman sale 2962 ("the most important Italian mathematical work of the sixteenth century"); Riccardi II, 505-06; Adams T180.
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