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BUTEO, Joannes (ca 1485-ca 1560). Logistica. Lyons: Rouillium, 1559.
8o (171 x 106 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and woodcut diagram's in text. (Minor browing to text.) Contemporary blindstamped German pigskin over wooden boards, upper cover with a central portrait panel of Charles V (Haebler p.122, III), and the initials "ISN" at head and the dated "1578" at foot of panel, lower cover with portrait panel of Johann Friedrich of Saxony, (Haebler p. 123, IV) both panels signed "M.F." (some worming). Provenance: "I.S.N. 1578" (stamp on upper cover); Caspar Pistry (ownership inscription dated 1606); Polycarpi de Bonamus (?, ownership inscription dated 1663); Strigon Library "Biblioth. Eccl. Metk. Strigon" (small ink stamp on title and two other leaves).
FIRST EDITION of Buteo's most important work. "The work is divided into five books, the first treating of the fundamental operations with integers, the second of fractions and the rule of position, the third of algebra, the fourth of arithmetical problems and the fifth of algebraic problems. The problems are not of practical value and hence the arithmetic never attained any popularity" (Smith Rara Arithmetica, p.292). Adams B-3359.
[Bound with:]
BUTEO, Joannes. De quadratura circuli libri duo. Lyons: Rouillium, 1559.
8o. Woodcut printer's device on title and woodcut diagrams in text. (Some light worming at end.)
FIRST EDITION. Buteo's attempt to refute the current system on the quadrature of the circle which had been invented to resolve the problems. In the appendix Buteo addresses some of the errors of Campanus, Zambertus, Orontius, Peletarius and Pena made in their interpretations of Euclid. Adams B-3358.
8o (171 x 106 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and woodcut diagram's in text. (Minor browing to text.) Contemporary blindstamped German pigskin over wooden boards, upper cover with a central portrait panel of Charles V (Haebler p.122, III), and the initials "ISN" at head and the dated "1578" at foot of panel, lower cover with portrait panel of Johann Friedrich of Saxony, (Haebler p. 123, IV) both panels signed "M.F." (some worming). Provenance: "I.S.N. 1578" (stamp on upper cover); Caspar Pistry (ownership inscription dated 1606); Polycarpi de Bonamus (?, ownership inscription dated 1663); Strigon Library "Biblioth. Eccl. Metk. Strigon" (small ink stamp on title and two other leaves).
FIRST EDITION of Buteo's most important work. "The work is divided into five books, the first treating of the fundamental operations with integers, the second of fractions and the rule of position, the third of algebra, the fourth of arithmetical problems and the fifth of algebraic problems. The problems are not of practical value and hence the arithmetic never attained any popularity" (Smith Rara Arithmetica, p.292). Adams B-3359.
[Bound with:]
BUTEO, Joannes. De quadratura circuli libri duo. Lyons: Rouillium, 1559.
8o. Woodcut printer's device on title and woodcut diagrams in text. (Some light worming at end.)
FIRST EDITION. Buteo's attempt to refute the current system on the quadrature of the circle which had been invented to resolve the problems. In the appendix Buteo addresses some of the errors of Campanus, Zambertus, Orontius, Peletarius and Pena made in their interpretations of Euclid. Adams B-3358.