240 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



4714 TACQUET (Andreas, s.j.) OPERA MATHEMATICA, demonstrata et propugnata a SIMONE 

 LAURENTIO VETERANI ; with finely engraved title and beautiful portrait of Cardinal Rospigliosi 

 (dedicatee) by R. Collin, and numerous folding plates, thick folio, old calf (sound copy), with fine 

 engraved bookplates of van Hulthem and van Havre (not quite perfect, as noted below), 10s 



AntverpicK, 1669 



4715 ANOTHER AND COMPLETE COPY, with finely engraved title and portrait of Card. 



Rospigliosi, and numerous folding plates, very thick folio, old English calf (fine copy), with etched 

 bookplate of Robert Lowndes, 1702 (RARE), 1. 1.9 



This copy contains ' Cylindricorum et Annularium Libri V ', and ' Dissertatio de Circulorum Volutionibus ', which are 

 often missing, and absent in the first-named copy. In the first the author shows a new method of calculating the contents 

 of a number of bodies, which had hitherto only been found by the method of indivisibles. 



4716 ARITHMETICS THEORIA et PRAXIS, Editio II. correctior ; with plate, 12mo old vellum ; 



or, old calf, 5s 6d ibidem, 1665 



According to Dean Peacock, Tacquet was a late employer of the old method of division. 



4717 ELEMENTA GEOMETRIC Planae ac Solidse, quibus accedunt Selecta ex Archimede Theore- 



mata, Editio III. correctior ; with plates, 12mo. old vellum; or, old calf, 5s ib., 1672 



4718- ELEMENTA EUCLIDEA GEOMETRIC, Plance ac Solidrc ; et selectse ex Archimede 



Theoremata, quibus accedit Trigonometria, novissimam hanc Ed. adornavit, Schemata XL 



addidit, etc. etc. GUL. WHISTON ; with plates, 8vo. old calf (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 



2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 4s 6d Arnstelodami, 1725 



' Les ouvrages elementaires de Tacquet se recommandent par une grande clarte.' Eiogr. Gen. 



4719 The ELEMENTS of EUCLID, with select Theorems out of ARCHIMEDES, with Practical 



Corollaries, shewing the Uses of many of the Propositions, by WILLIAM WHISTON, pr., 6th Ed., 

 with Appendix of Practical Geometry, by S. F[ULLER], plates, 8vo. old calf, 4s Dublin, 1728 



Including an 'Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Mathematicks ' (pp. 12). 



4720 TADDEI (Annibale) II RAGIONIERE PERFETTO, ossia Nuovo Corso d'Istruzioni per la di lui 

 Professione, 4 vols. 4to. hf. white vellum gilt, 15s Roma, 1839 



Containing an interesting historical introduction (pp. 33). 



4721 TAGLIANI (Giuseppe, Canonico da Macerata) OROLOGI RIFLESSI per mezo di un picciolo 

 Specchio parallelo, 6 perpendicolare all' Orizonte ; with arms on title and numerous woodcuts, 4to. 

 old Italian vellum (title very slightly mended, otherwise a FINE AND UNCUT COPY) ; RARE, 1. Is 



Macerata, 1648 



One of the few works treating of reflecting sundials. It was unknown to Poggendorff. 

 AN EXCESSIVELY RARE EDITION : 



4722 TAGLIENTE (Giovanni Antonio) : CONSIDERANDO ip IOANNI ANTONIO TAIENTE, quanto e 

 ne | cessaria cosa a diuersi Mercatanti, & a molti Artesani | li quali fanno le sue mercantie ne le 

 loro botege, & \ assai di loro no sanno la regola del tenere con | to dei loro libri sempii ne dopii, & 

 pero | mi sono mosso a componer la presen | te opereta per quelli che hano | debisogno accio che 

 sapi- | no tenere ordinata | mente el detto conto del suo libro Vgnoso j come seguendo pin oltra 

 ue- | derete la regola sua, cr. 4to. hf. vellum (the last 8 pp. partly water-stained and wormed, and 

 parts of letters defective, also 2 very slight wormholes through the first 8 II.), 18. 18s 



[Colophon :] Hauendo lo Giouanniantonio Tagliente provisionato dal \ Serenissimo Dominio 

 Venetiano, con ogni debita cura di- \ mostrato a fare diuerse Partite di ragione mercan- 

 tile con | le sue regale secondo el consueto delli pratichi mercatanti, \ Et sforzatomi di 

 narrare qudto e stato il bisogno si della \ Inclita citta de Venetia come etid de tutte le 

 altre citta del \ la Italia, Hormai io faro fine & se per alcuno mio diffet \ to o ucro 

 corso di penna alcuno pelegrino ingegno retrouas \ se nella presente mia opera 

 qualche erroreprego che in \ mio loco uoglia supplire, laquale e intitidata Luminario di \ 

 Arithmctica stampata co gratia et Priuilegio del Anno di \ nostra salute, M.D.XXV. 



THE EARLIEST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK TREATING EXCLUSIVELY OF BOOKKEEPING. All editions Of 



the work are of great rarity, but the above is exceptionally so. It is quite unknown to bibliographers, e.g., Riccardi, 

 Brunet, Graesse, etc., nor is there a copy in the British Museum or in any other great public library. 



The first author to refer at all to the 1525 edition is Mr. Richard Brown, who in his History of Accounting and 

 Accmintants, mentions an edition in 24 11. of this date, which actually forms a later issue of the above edition. The above 



edition in 16 leaves, however, is quite unknown to bibliographers, nor with the sole exception of this and another copy in 



a London Professional Library, can any copy be traced as being still in existence. 



4723 - : CONSIDERANDO Io GIOVANN' ANTONIO TAGLIENTE quanto e necessaria cosa a li nostri 

 Magnifi [sic] gentilhuomini & ad altri mercatanti il laudabile MODO da TENERE CONTO de LIBBRO 

 DOPPIO cioe, el Zornale, el Libro con 1'alphabetto secondo il consueto di questa inclita Citta di 

 Vinegia, io qui seguendo con 1'agiuto del .... ALUISE DA LA FONTANA, ui daremo lo amaestra- 

 mento che con facilita lo potrete imparare, laqual opera ancor sara di molto utilita Vniversalmente 

 ad ogniuno, come ne 1'opera uedereti ; with woodcut on title of pen in hand, 16mo. boards (some II. 

 water- stained, otherwise a SOUND COPY) ; very rare, 5. 5s 



[col. :] Vinegia, per Giouanri 1 Antonio di Nicolini da Sabio, 1533 

 This edition was unknown to Mr. Richard Brown. It consists of 36 11., signatures A-D in eights and E in fours. 



4724 [ ] LIBRO di ABACHO il quale insegna a fare ogni ragione mercantile & pertegare le terre. 

 Con 1'arte della GEOMETRIA, <fc altre nobilissime ragioni straordinarie. Con la Tavola come 

 rispondeno i PESI, & MONEDE, di molte Citta & Paesi, con la inclita citta di Venetia. 11 qualc 

 Libro si chiama Tesoro Uniuersale ; title in red within woodcut border, with large woodcut of a 

 Business College on rev., and numerous smaller woodcuts and ornaments throughout, 16mo. old 

 painted wrapper (a few II. mended on blank margin, and a few others slightly gnawed, but a sound 

 c^py); very rare, 3. 15s [col. :] Venetia per Francesco de Leno, 1570 



Of great rarity, like all the editions of Tagliente's Abaco. The above edition was unknown to Brunet. 



It is a romarVable fact that, although Tagliente was one of the earliest and ino.st important writers on commercial 

 arithmetic, hardly any copies of any editions are left at the present time. This rarity may account for the fact that these 

 works were unknown to bibliographers of scientific works, as Montucla, Poggendorff, Prof, de Morgan, etc., and that no 

 biography of either Tagliente can be found in any biographical dictionary. 



