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ANONYMOUS. Il Nuovo Computista pei Commercianti ridotto alla massima facilità.
. Milano, Cartaro Stampatore Candido Bucinelli, [1811.].
Rare ephemeral pocket book giving the exchange rates between Milan and various Italian city-states or regions as well as the most commonly encountered European currencies.
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A Merchant's Compendium:
First Edition of Apianus's Arithmetic and Two Bilingual Dictionaries.
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APIAN[US], Petrus (Bienewitz). Eyn Newe unnd wohlgegr,underweysung aller Kauffmans Rechnung in dreyen b' mit sch'Regeln un[d] fragstucken begriffen. Ingolstadt, Georg Apianus, 1527.
A very attractive copy of the first edition of Apianus's Kauffmans Rechnung.
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OVERLOOKED EDITIO PRINCEPS:
OF THE FIRST TREATISE ON CONIC SECTIONS
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APOLLONIUS OF PERGA / Ed. MEMO, Giovanni Battista.. Opera per doctissimum Philosophum Ioannem Baptistam Memum…de Graeco in Latinum Traducta & Noviter impressa. Venice, Bernardo Bindoni, 1537.
Very rare editio princeps of Apollonius Conics (Books I-IV), the basic treatise on the subject, “which recognized and named the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.” – Horblit 4 (on the later edition of 1566).
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The First Separately Issued Archimedean Texts
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ARCHIMEDES/BOETHIUS/CAMPANO Da Novara/GAURICO, Luca, ed.. Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Cnu, Archimede Syracusanu atqz boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta. Venice, Ioan. Bapti. Sessa,, 1503.
First published Latin edition of De Mensura Circuli and De Quadratura Parabolae, containing Archimedes' application of the method of exhaustion (the early form of integration) and the earliest theoretical calculation of p; apart from Valla's excerpts of 1501, THE FIRST PRINTED LATIN TEXTS OF ARCHIMEDES (Rose, p. 50).
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ARCHIMEDES/ed. RIVAULT, David. ΑΡΧΙΜΗΔΟΥΣ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ. Archimedis Opera quae extant. Novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata. Paris, Claude Morel, 1615.
First edition of the most influential seventeenth-century edition of Archimedes’ complete works.
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