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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò (c. 1499-1557). Regola generale da solevare con ragione e misura. [Venice: Niccolò Bascarini for Niccolò Tartaglia, 1551.] 2 parts in one volume, 4° (210 x 152mm). Woodcut portrait on title. 10 woodcut illustrations, 5 full-page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. With blank e4. (Occasional light waterstaining or spotting, quire d misbound.) Modern marbled boards (quires reinforced at folds).
TARTAGLIA, N. Ragionamenti ... sopra la sua travagliata inventione. Venice: Niccolò Bascarini for Niccolò Tartaglia, 1551. 4° (205 x 148mm). 12 woodcut illustrations. Woodcut initials and tailpiece. (Occasional light soiling and browning.) 18th-century colour-printed boards (corners rubbed, spine a little worn, upper hinge split). Provenance: manuscript pressmark on upper board.
FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS. The Regola and Ragionamenti take the form of imaginary dialogues between Tartaglia and his student Richard Wentworth. In the former treatise, 'The first book ... is devoted to the problem of raising sunken ships, while the remaining two books deal with weather forecasting, specific weights, and an early prototype of the diving bell' (Norman). The two treatises were issued both separately (as here) and together. Adams T-186 and T-185; Bibliotheca mechanica pp. 314-5; Norman 2056 (1st work); Riccardi II, i, 71-72. (2)
TARTAGLIA, N. Ragionamenti ... sopra la sua travagliata inventione. Venice: Niccolò Bascarini for Niccolò Tartaglia, 1551. 4° (205 x 148mm). 12 woodcut illustrations. Woodcut initials and tailpiece. (Occasional light soiling and browning.) 18th-century colour-printed boards (corners rubbed, spine a little worn, upper hinge split). Provenance: manuscript pressmark on upper board.
FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS. The Regola and Ragionamenti take the form of imaginary dialogues between Tartaglia and his student Richard Wentworth. In the former treatise, 'The first book ... is devoted to the problem of raising sunken ships, while the remaining two books deal with weather forecasting, specific weights, and an early prototype of the diving bell' (Norman). The two treatises were issued both separately (as here) and together. Adams T-186 and T-185; Bibliotheca mechanica pp. 314-5; Norman 2056 (1st work); Riccardi II, i, 71-72. (2)
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