Details
STIFEL, Michael. Arithmetica integra, Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1544. 4°, device on title, woodcut initials and diagrams (lacking g3, title cut down and mounted, upper margin of a2-3 repaired affecting a few letter of first line of text, qq2 torn with loss of 2 lines of text, Ll2 with loss of half page, a few leaves lightly waterstained), blind-stamped tawed calf with central fleurs-de-lys and mitres, dated 1766 (head of spine damaged). FIRST EDITION. Adams S1865; Norman 2019; Smith p. 223.
Smith: "The work is one of the most scholarly arithmetics and algebras that came out in Germany in the sixteenth century ... This work did for Germany what Cardano's and Tartaglia's did for Italy. It was a storehouse from which subsequent writers drew, and, although not a practical mercantile book, it materially influenced even the elementary textbook makers."
Smith: "The work is one of the most scholarly arithmetics and algebras that came out in Germany in the sixteenth century ... This work did for Germany what Cardano's and Tartaglia's did for Italy. It was a storehouse from which subsequent writers drew, and, although not a practical mercantile book, it materially influenced even the elementary textbook makers."