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an open book with numbers on it sitting on top of a tablean old book with a black and white title on itan old book with a red and white cover on a white background
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Mathematics Fine, Oronce De arithmetica practica libri quatuor. With numerous diagrams and tables, 12 of which are full-page and in red and black. Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1555. 3 blank leaves, 4 leaves (title page, preface, index), 72 numbered leaves, 3 leaves. 2nd 4°. 18th-century half-leather binding with gold-stamped floral decoration. Title page; covers bound in combed marble-patterned paper with red edging on the reverse (front joint partially torn; leather discoloured in the upper section, slightly rubbed and stained). Fourth edition of Finé’s arithmetic. - Smith, *Rara Arithmetica*, p. 163. - Posthumous edition published by Oronce Finés’s (1494–1555) son Jean; Oronce was a renowned mathematician and professor at the Collège Royal. The work is divided into four chapters, covering integrals, common fractions, sexagesimal fractions and proportions. - Provenance: ‘South Library’ of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, bearing the lithographed ex libris featuring the family coat of arms, as well as owner’s inscriptions on and around it. - The book block is more heavily water-stained in the upper third; the endpapers and flyleaves show glue stains in the corners; the first front flyleaf is loose; otherwise a sound copy of an early and important mathematical treatise. Mathematics. – Fourth edition of Finé’s Arithmetic. – For references, see above. – Edition published posthumously by Jean, son of Oronce Finé (1494–1555), the prominent French mathematician and professor at the Collège Royal. The work is divided into four chapters, covering integrals, ordinary fractions, sexagesimal fractions, and proportions. - Provenance: ‘South Library’ of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, bearing their lithographed bookplate featuring the family coat of arms, as well as the owner’s inscriptions on and around it. - The book block is heavily water-stained in the upper third; the pastedowns and endpapers have glue stains in the corners; the first front endpaper is loose; otherwise, this is a sound copy of this early and important mathematical treatise.
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