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Lot 115
LA ROCHE, Etienne de (1470-1530)
Larismethique nouvellement composee... divisee en deux parties... (Lyon: Guillaume Huyon for) Constantin Fradin, (2 June 1520).
Closed12 July 2023
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GBP 12,000–18,000
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LA ROCHE, Etienne de (1470-1530)
Larismethique nouvellement composee... divisee en deux parties... (Lyon: Guillaume Huyon for) Constantin Fradin, (2 June 1520).
The first edition of de La Roche's treatise, 'the best of the early French arithmetics' (Smith), and the first published work on algebra in French. It was primarily based on the work of Nicolas Chuquet (late 15th century), La Roche's teacher, which circulated in manuscript but was not published until 1880, as well as on the works of Pacioli and Filippo Frescobaldi. Extremely rare: we have only been able to trace the Honeyman and Macclesfield copies at auction. Bechtel L-47; Brunet III 842; Hoock & Jeannin L5.1; von Gültlingen, Huyon 12; Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p.128; Tomash & Williams L5; USTC 30158.
Quarto (254 x 176mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and diagrams (small tear to head of title-page, tiny marginal hole to h5, ink stains on n4v, faint marginal staining and soiling from gathering B to end, lacking front flyleaf). Old binding reusing a fifteenth-century vellum manuscript (lightly soiled, spine with short splits at head and foot). Provenance: Jeronimus im Hoff (Imhoff), of Nuremberg (1468-1539; bought in Lyon on 23 March 1534, inscription on rear flyleaf in Italian) – Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (1770-1846; small stamp on verso of title, in 1836 his library transferred to:) – Royal Library Berlin (stamp on verso of title) – Thomas Scheler (Catalogue 15, Précurseurs et Novateurs, item 296, sold to:) – Erwin Tomash (1921-2012, computer engineer; booklabel, his sale Sotheby's 18 September 2018, lot 337).
Larismethique nouvellement composee... divisee en deux parties... (Lyon: Guillaume Huyon for) Constantin Fradin, (2 June 1520).
The first edition of de La Roche's treatise, 'the best of the early French arithmetics' (Smith), and the first published work on algebra in French. It was primarily based on the work of Nicolas Chuquet (late 15th century), La Roche's teacher, which circulated in manuscript but was not published until 1880, as well as on the works of Pacioli and Filippo Frescobaldi. Extremely rare: we have only been able to trace the Honeyman and Macclesfield copies at auction. Bechtel L-47; Brunet III 842; Hoock & Jeannin L5.1; von Gültlingen, Huyon 12; Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p.128; Tomash & Williams L5; USTC 30158.
Quarto (254 x 176mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and diagrams (small tear to head of title-page, tiny marginal hole to h5, ink stains on n4v, faint marginal staining and soiling from gathering B to end, lacking front flyleaf). Old binding reusing a fifteenth-century vellum manuscript (lightly soiled, spine with short splits at head and foot). Provenance: Jeronimus im Hoff (Imhoff), of Nuremberg (1468-1539; bought in Lyon on 23 March 1534, inscription on rear flyleaf in Italian) – Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (1770-1846; small stamp on verso of title, in 1836 his library transferred to:) – Royal Library Berlin (stamp on verso of title) – Thomas Scheler (Catalogue 15, Précurseurs et Novateurs, item 296, sold to:) – Erwin Tomash (1921-2012, computer engineer; booklabel, his sale Sotheby's 18 September 2018, lot 337).
LA ROCHE, Etienne de (1470-1530)
Larismethique nouvellement composee... divisee en deux parties... (Lyon: Guillaume Huyon for) Constantin Fradin, (2 June 1520).
The first edition of de La Roche's treatise, 'the best of the early French arithmetics' (Smith), and the first published work on algebra in French. It was primarily based on the work of Nicolas Chuquet (late 15th century), La Roche's teacher, which circulated in manuscript but was not published until 1880, as well as on the works of Pacioli and Filippo Frescobaldi. Extremely rare: we have only been able to trace the Honeyman and Macclesfield copies at auction. Bechtel L-47; Brunet III 842; Hoock & Jeannin L5.1; von Gültlingen, Huyon 12; Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p.128; Tomash & Williams L5; USTC 30158.
Quarto (254 x 176mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and diagrams (small tear to head of title-page, tiny marginal hole to h5, ink stains on n4v, faint marginal staining and soiling from gathering B to end, lacking front flyleaf). Old binding reusing a fifteenth-century vellum manuscript (lightly soiled, spine with short splits at head and foot). Provenance: Jeronimus im Hoff (Imhoff), of Nuremberg (1468-1539; bought in Lyon on 23 March 1534, inscription on rear flyleaf in Italian) – Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (1770-1846; small stamp on verso of title, in 1836 his library transferred to:) – Royal Library Berlin (stamp on verso of title) – Thomas Scheler (Catalogue 15, Précurseurs et Novateurs, item 296, sold to:) – Erwin Tomash (1921-2012, computer engineer; booklabel, his sale Sotheby's 18 September 2018, lot 337).
Larismethique nouvellement composee... divisee en deux parties... (Lyon: Guillaume Huyon for) Constantin Fradin, (2 June 1520).
The first edition of de La Roche's treatise, 'the best of the early French arithmetics' (Smith), and the first published work on algebra in French. It was primarily based on the work of Nicolas Chuquet (late 15th century), La Roche's teacher, which circulated in manuscript but was not published until 1880, as well as on the works of Pacioli and Filippo Frescobaldi. Extremely rare: we have only been able to trace the Honeyman and Macclesfield copies at auction. Bechtel L-47; Brunet III 842; Hoock & Jeannin L5.1; von Gültlingen, Huyon 12; Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p.128; Tomash & Williams L5; USTC 30158.
Quarto (254 x 176mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and diagrams (small tear to head of title-page, tiny marginal hole to h5, ink stains on n4v, faint marginal staining and soiling from gathering B to end, lacking front flyleaf). Old binding reusing a fifteenth-century vellum manuscript (lightly soiled, spine with short splits at head and foot). Provenance: Jeronimus im Hoff (Imhoff), of Nuremberg (1468-1539; bought in Lyon on 23 March 1534, inscription on rear flyleaf in Italian) – Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (1770-1846; small stamp on verso of title, in 1836 his library transferred to:) – Royal Library Berlin (stamp on verso of title) – Thomas Scheler (Catalogue 15, Précurseurs et Novateurs, item 296, sold to:) – Erwin Tomash (1921-2012, computer engineer; booklabel, his sale Sotheby's 18 September 2018, lot 337).
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