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In Venetia: per Nicolo de Bascarini ad instantia & requisitione & a proprie spese de Nicolo Tartaglia Autore, 1554.. SECOND EDITION 1554, imprint from colophon, Italian text, small 4to, approximately 220 x 150 mm, 8½ x 6 inches, large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, 40 woodcut illustrations in the text plus an additional strip of paper bearing a repeat illustration pasted to fore-edge of leaf S3r as in all copies of the 1554 edition, numerous diagrams, 11 historiated initials, leaves: [4], 5-128 leaves, numbered on rectos only, making a total of 254 pages, signature H is duplicated i.e. pages 29-32, collated and guaranteed complete, bound in modern half leather over patterned paper boards, 3 raised bands, blind rules and gilt title to spine, new endpapers. Pale stain to margins throughout up to leaf 104, then slightly heavier stains with tide lines to leaf 125 which just touch the text, all still legible, also a smaller darker brown stain in the upper margins sometimes affecting… Read More

(Venetia): Appresso de L'Auttore (Per Nicolo de Bascarini, ad instantia & requisitione, & a proprie spese de Nicolo Tartaglia autore), 1554. Second edition (first published in 1546). Small 4to. 128 leaves [numbered recto only]. Large woodcut portriat of the author on the title page, 40 woodcut illustrations in the text, numerous diagrams, historiated initials, additional strip of paper bearing a repeat illustration pasted to fore-edge of leaf S3r as in all copies of this edition. Text in Italian. Cockle 660 included in the artillery section). BM/STC Italian, p. 658. Norman sale 202 (for the first edition): "Presents Tartaglia's own research on third-degree equations, his most important mathematical accomplishment." Some light foxing, but a very good copy. Later patterned boards (spine completely taped over), edges sprinkled red. (#3791). Tartaglia (1499-1557) was an Italian mathematician who pioneered work on ballistics, the subject of the first two books of this work; the third concerns gunpowder,… Read More