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LOT 140
€400,00 - €800,00

[Mathematics] Ciruelo, Pedro. Cursus quatuor mathematicaru[m] artiu[m] liberaliu[m]:

quas recollegit atq[u]e correxit magister Petr[us] Ciruelus Daroce[n]sis Theologus simul & philosophus. (Alcalá de Hernanez), Miguel de Eguia, 1526/ 1528, 4 parts in 1 vol., (92) lvs (miscounted in pencil as 95 lvs), title within woodcut borders and date 1526, num. woodcut ills., initials and diagrams, modern hmor., gilt and ribbed spine, sm. folio. Lacks the first leaf (a) of the final part on music (leaf 71); (water)st./ foxed/ soiled throughout, closed wormtunnel in blank upper margin up to leaf 20 (and in a few lvs in lower blank margin at the end), old. marg. annots. in pen in the final part. With bookplate "Hesperia Libreria Anticuaria Zaragoza" on free endpaper.

Very rare early work on arithmetics, geometrics, perspective and music, seldom offered for sale. A copy in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Bibliothèque Central, Paris is described as follows (pagination: (93-1) lvs): Recueil d’éditeur dont les quatre pièces ont été publiées séparément entre 1516 et 1528 : la première partie provenant de l’édition de 1526 (no 177A de Martin Abad); les deuxième et troisième parties de l’édition d’Arnaldo Guillén de Brocar de 1516 (no 50 de Martin Abad); la quatrième partie de l’édition de 1528 (no 177C bis de Martin Abad). Publié à Alcalá de Henares par Miguel de Eguía d’après Martin Abad.

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