Gemma (Reiner, Frisius): L' Arithmetique, traduite en François par Pierre Forcadel, Antwerp, chez Pierre Bellerre [de l'Imprimerie de Iean Withage], 1582, 8vo, (?) first edition by Forcadel, woodcut title vignette, several woodcut diagrams (title browned and repaired at margins, gatherings C-H lightly wormed, slightly affecting text from G5 to H2, later leaves dampstained), 20th-century morocco-backed boards. [cf. Smith 200]

细节

Gemma (Reiner, Frisius): L' Arithmetique, traduite en François par Pierre Forcadel, Antwerp, chez Pierre Bellerre [de l'Imprimerie de Iean Withage], 1582, 8vo, (?) first edition by Forcadel, woodcut title vignette, several woodcut diagrams (title browned and repaired at margins, gatherings C-H lightly wormed, slightly affecting text from G5 to H2, later leaves dampstained), 20th-century morocco-backed boards. [cf. Smith 200]

拍品专文

Gemma Rainer or Genier, the Frisian was born at Dockum, in East Freisland December 8, 1508; died at Louvain, May 25, 1555. Smith lists 59 editions of his work, first published in 1540, 'the most popular arithmetic of the 16th century'.