BOISSIÈRE, Claude de. Nobilissimus et Antiquissimus Ludus Pythagoreus (qui Rythmomachia nominatur) in utilitatem & relaxationem studiosorum comparatus ad veram & facilem proprietatem & rationem numerorum assequendam, Paris, apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1556, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN LATIN, Cauellat's device of a hen on title, 10 full-page woodcut board diagrams, smaller illustrations in text, (lower margins lightly wormed, outer margins shaved slightly affecting text of diagrams, dampstains in lower part of the page), later 18th-century calf-backed boards (upper cover detached). [VDL Geschichte I, p.373; Schachlitteratur 350; KB 4775; Adams B2346; Smith Rara Mathematica p. 271]

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BOISSIÈRE, Claude de. Nobilissimus et Antiquissimus Ludus Pythagoreus (qui Rythmomachia nominatur) in utilitatem & relaxationem studiosorum comparatus ad veram & facilem proprietatem & rationem numerorum assequendam, Paris, apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1556, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN LATIN, Cauellat's device of a hen on title, 10 full-page woodcut board diagrams, smaller illustrations in text, (lower margins lightly wormed, outer margins shaved slightly affecting text of diagrams, dampstains in lower part of the page), later 18th-century calf-backed boards (upper cover detached). [VDL Geschichte I, p.373; Schachlitteratur 350; KB 4775; Adams B2346; Smith Rara Mathematica p. 271]

拍品專文

PROVENANCE : George Innes (bookplate); J.W. Rimington Wilson (inscription on front pastedown); Dr. M. Niemeijer (bookplate).

The clearest of three standard treatises on the ancient game of Rythmomachia, describing the checkerboard, the nature of the calculi used, and the general method of play.

Illustrated.