Zucchetta (Giovanni Battista) Prima Parte della Arimmetica, part 1 [all published], first edition, Brescia, Vicenzo Sabbio, 1660.
Zucchetta (Giovanni Battista) Prima Parte della Arimmetica, part 1 [all published], first edition, title with engraved architectural border and portrait of the author, engraved portrait of the dedicatee Christopher Papa of Nuremberg to *2, contemporary printed corrections slip mounted on contents f. 2*3, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional scattered foxing, occasional marginal dampstaining, seventeenth-century vellum, a little browned, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Adams Z195; Edit16 30423; Smith, Rara Arithmetica pp.425-426; Riccardi I I, 674 'rarissimo'); Tomash & Williams Z13], folio, Brescia, Vicenzo Sabbio, 1660.
⁂ Zuchetta was a mathematician from Genoa. The preface lists some 98 arguments for the need of arithmetic in all classes of society. As well as general arithmetic it includes mercantile arithmetic, especially currency exchange.
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Zucchetta (Giovanni Battista) Prima Parte della Arimmetica, part 1 [all published], first edition, title with engraved architectural border and portrait of the author, engraved portrait of the dedicatee Christopher Papa of Nuremberg to *2, contemporary printed corrections slip mounted on contents f. 2*3, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional scattered foxing, occasional marginal dampstaining, seventeenth-century vellum, a little browned, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Adams Z195; Edit16 30423; Smith, Rara Arithmetica pp.425-426; Riccardi I I, 674 'rarissimo'); Tomash & Williams Z13], folio, Brescia, Vicenzo Sabbio, 1660.
⁂ Zuchetta was a mathematician from Genoa. The preface lists some 98 arguments for the need of arithmetic in all classes of society. As well as general arithmetic it includes mercantile arithmetic, especially currency exchange.