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PEURBACH, Georg von (1423-1461). Opus algorithmi iucundissimum Magistri Georgij Puerbachij wiennensis (preceptoris singularis Magistri Joannis de Monteregio) sacreque mathematice inquisitoris subtilissimi summa cum vtilitate exemplis ac cubice redicis extractione alleuiat o quae procedendimodo nuper digestum. [Leipzig]: Martin Landsberg, 1503.
4o (214 x 156 mm). 8 leaves. Modern half morocco. Provenance: contemporary marginalia.
An early edition of Peurbach's popular work on algebra, "a brief elementary textbook on practical computation with integers and fractions that was printed several times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries" (DSB). Adams P-2267.
4o (214 x 156 mm). 8 leaves. Modern half morocco. Provenance: contemporary marginalia.
An early edition of Peurbach's popular work on algebra, "a brief elementary textbook on practical computation with integers and fractions that was printed several times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries" (DSB). Adams P-2267.