Weights and measures--History, Weights and measures--History--Early works to 1800, QC87 .P37 1540
composta per M. Bartholomeo di Pasi da Vinetia ; con la sua tauola copiosissima e facilissima a trouare ogni cosa per ordine nuouamente fatta e con... Show morecomposta per M. Bartholomeo di Pasi da Vinetia ; con la sua tauola copiosissima e facilissima a trouare ogni cosa per ordine nuouamente fatta e con somma dilige[n]za reuista e spa[m]pata. Print from colophon. Signatures: aa12, A-Z8, AA-BB8. -- La h. aa12 en bl. -- L. curs. -- Catchwords. -- Registrum. Tít. enmarcado en port. arquitectónica xil. -- Inic. grab. xil. An early merchants' guide to the measurements of the Mediterranean and Near East, this pocketbook for sixteenth-century Italian traders is one of the foremost sources for the study of the metrologies of Venice and her trading partners in the early sixteenth century. It enabled conversion between Venetian currency, weights and measures and units of other Italian city-states, European neighbours and more exotic locations in the Levant, North Africa, the Near and Middle East, including Constantinople, Aleppo, Tripoli, Damascus, Cyprus, Corfu, Rhodes, and Crete. Pasi's manual is invaluable as a record of the panoply of commodities traded in the Mediterranean at the start of the sixteenth century, including pearls, silks, wool, saffron, chestnuts, figs, galangal, vegetable oils, gold and silver. On fols. 3, 11, and 12, Pasi recorded the tariffs on pearls in Damascus, Aleppo, Cairo, Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice. Most likely the famous merchant Balbi carried a copy of this classic on his travels. - First printed in Venice in 1503, and again in 1521, this 1540 edition appears to be the third and was followed by another in 1557. - An excellent clean copy in a charming French binding. Very rare: the only copy of any edition to surface at auction within the last thirty years appears to be the Honeyman copy of the 1503 edition. Main Heritage Shelves General QC87 .P37 1540 Book Item-ID: i16875357 BIB-ID: 1510954 Show less
by Leon Legrain. In portfolio. Main Heritage Shelves General PJ3711 .P5 1930 Book vol. 16 Item-ID: i15447959 BIB-ID: 1461208 Show moreby Leon Legrain. In portfolio. Main Heritage Shelves General PJ3711 .P5 1930 Book vol. 16 Item-ID: i15447959 BIB-ID: 1461208 Show less
digessit et interpretatus est d:r Carolus Johannes Tornberg. "Impensis Reg. Academiae Litterr. Humann. Historiae et Antiquitatum." Main Heritage... Show moredigessit et interpretatus est d:r Carolus Johannes Tornberg. "Impensis Reg. Academiae Litterr. Humann. Historiae et Antiquitatum." Main Heritage Shelves General CJ3404 .K86 1848 Book Item-ID: i2238635x BIB-ID: 2395528 Includes bibliographical references and index. Show less
وصف ورحلات, وصف ورحلات, وصف ورحلات, وصف ورحلات, DS105 .G83 2010
للرحالة الإيطالي جورجو غوتشي ؛ ترجمة شيرين إيبش ؛ تحرير وتعليق د. أحمد إيبش. Main Heritage Reading Room DS105 .G83 2010 Reference Item-ID: i23816016 BIB... Show moreللرحالة الإيطالي جورجو غوتشي ؛ ترجمة شيرين إيبش ؛ تحرير وتعليق د. أحمد إيبش. Main Heritage Reading Room DS105 .G83 2010 Reference Item-ID: i23816016 BIB-ID: 2534671 Show less
