Lot 278

Mathematics.- Algebra.- de la Roche (Estienne) Larismethique nouellement composee..., first edition, Lyon, Guillaume Huyon for Constantin Fradin, 1520

Estimate: £8,000 - 12,000

Description

Mathematics.- Algebra.- de la Roche (Estienne) Larismethique nouellement composee..., first edition, title in red and black within figurative woodcut border and with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut initials and diagrams, title with small marginal tear (repaired), ink stains to n4 verso, some faint spotting and minor damp-stains or other soiling, generally marginal, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary binding in a fifteenth-century vellum manuscript leaf with initials in red, some stains, [Brunet III 842], folio, Lyon, Guillaume Huyon for Constantin Fradin, 1520.

⁂ First edition of the first published work on algebra in French, in an attractive medieval manuscript leaf binding.

Description

Mathematics.- Algebra.- de la Roche (Estienne) Larismethique nouellement composee..., first edition, title in red and black within figurative woodcut border and with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut initials and diagrams, title with small marginal tear (repaired), ink stains to n4 verso, some faint spotting and minor damp-stains or other soiling, generally marginal, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary binding in a fifteenth-century vellum manuscript leaf with initials in red, some stains, [Brunet III 842], folio, Lyon, Guillaume Huyon for Constantin Fradin, 1520.

⁂ First edition of the first published work on algebra in French, in an attractive medieval manuscript leaf binding.

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