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[HUSWIRT, Johannes]. Arithmetice lilium triplicis practice atque pulcherrime utputa, tum in integris tum in factoris, tum in projectilibus adiunctis nonullis mercatoribus regulis ... [Cologne, Cornelius de Zyrickzee], 1511. 4to, 1 l (b.) + 40p + 1 l (b), with large woodcut on verso of title and large woodcut coat of arms on verso of last leaf; some compemtporary annotations; copy in recent boards. This rare treatise is "one of the earliest [works] printed in Germany on the Arabic system" (De Morgan). According to David Eugene Smith, in the addenda to his Rara Arithmetica, this is a verbatim reprint of the first edition of Huswirt's Enchiridion of 1501. The book "is divided into four tractati, and includes the fundamental operations through evolution, a brief treatment of abacus or line reckoning, common fractions, rule of three, partnership, and over twenty miscellaneous rules. Adams A1974 (imperfect); see De Morgan, p. 3 and Smith, pp. 74 and 507; not in the British Library; not in NUC., Woodcut Crucifixion, by Lucas Cranach (?) verso of t.p.; woodcut coat-of-arms on verso of last leaf. |
