The Augustus De Morgan Collection, Part 1: Pre-1600 Rare Books Collection
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Title:
The arte of vulgar arithmeticke, both in integers and fractions, deuided into two bookes ::whereof the first is called Nomodidactus numerorum, and the second Portus proportionum: with certeine demonstrations, reduced into so plaine and perfect method, as the like hath not hitherto beene published in English. Wherevnto is added a third booke, entituled Musa mercatorum: comprehending all the most necessarie and profitable rules vsed in the trade of merchandise. In all which three bookes, the rules, precepts, and maxims are not onely composed in meeter for the better retaining of them in memorie, but also the operations, examples, demonstrations, and questions, are in most easie wise expounded and explaned in the forme of a dialogue for the readers more cleere vnderstanding ... /
Creator:
Hylles, Thomas,fl. 1600.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
- Hill, Thomas,b. ca. 1528.
- Simson, Gabriel,d. 1600,printer.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
- Hill, Thomas,b. ca. 1528.
- Simson, Gabriel,d. 1600,printer.
Date:
1600
Date in Source:
1600.
Imprint:
Imprinted at London : By Gabriel Simson, dwelling in Fleete-lane,
Language:
English
Subject:
Arithmetic - Early works to 1800.
Format:
[12], 236, 239-267, 263-266, [4] leaves, [4] folded leaves of plates ;20 cm. (4to)
Note:
- Dedication signed: Thomas Hylles.
- Includes index.
- Sometimes attributed to Thomas Hill.
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan.
- ULL copy is annotated in a 17th-cent. hand. Imperfect: wants leaf A1 (blank except for signature-mark "A"), the plates, leaves 189-190 and leaves 195-196. Leaves 189-190 and 195-196 have been supplied in ms., in 17th-cent. hand, with slight loss of text through cropping.
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004409286_MOR1-b20728025
- Dedication signed: Thomas Hylles.
- Includes index.
- Sometimes attributed to Thomas Hill.
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan.
- ULL copy is annotated in a 17th-cent. hand. Imperfect: wants leaf A1 (blank except for signature-mark "A"), the plates, leaves 189-190 and leaves 195-196. Leaves 189-190 and 195-196 have been supplied in ms., in 17th-cent. hand, with slight loss of text through cropping.
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004409286_MOR1-b20728025
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