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Lefèvre d'Etaples, Jacques (Jacobus Faber Stapulensis).

Epitome compendiosaque introductio in libros Arithmeticos divi Severini Boetii: adjecto familiari commentario dilucidata. - Including: Jodocus Clichtoveus. Praxis numerandi certis quibusdam regulis constricta. - Including: Carolus Bovillus. Introductio in geometriam breviusculis annotationibus explanata: sex libris distincta. - Including: Lefèvre d'Etaples. Astronomici theorici corporu(m) celestiu(m). (At the end of the text:) Paris, Wolfgang Hopyl and Henricus Stephanus, June 27, 1503. fol. 112 Roman fol. sheets. With very numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Modern half leather binding with gilt-stamped spine title. Smith, Rara arithmetica p.80ff. Houzeau-Lancaster 2290. Adams F-18. Brigitte Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des éditions Parisiennes du XVIe siècleI, p. 108 : no. 86. Pettegree & Walsby, French Books III & IV, 77476. First edition of these important mathematical texts, including the first manual of geometry by a French author - Charles de Bovelles' "Introductio "The first 32 leaves contain the theoretical and philosophical exposition of the arithmetical systems of Boethius and Jordanus by Lefèvre d'Etaples. Folios 33-48 are occupied by a practical textbook on the main operations of arithmetic including square and cubic roots by Josse Clichtoveus (1472-1543), a disciple and enthusiastic collaborator of Lefèvre d'Etaples in the preparation of this textbook, especially in the writing of commentaries of Boethius and Aristotle". Bovelles' (1479-1566) handbook occupies fol. 49-95; like Clichtoveus, Bovelles was a student of Lefèvre d'Etaples at the Collège Cardinal Lemoyne; he later became a canon in Noyon. Today he is considered one of the most original thinkers on the threshold from the 15th to the 16th century. His geometry was translated into French by Henri Estienne and printed in 1510. A copy with wide margins. Margins occasionally browned and with traces of moisture. Some brownstains; fol. lxxxix-xciii more heavily brownstained due to the insertion of a leaf. The first leaf reinforced at the fold. A few wormholes. Ownership entry of the Capuchin monastery of Chambéry on the title page. Strikingly, the astronomical treatise by Lefèvre d'Etaples contains a large number of marginalia, some of them very detailed, in a fine contemporary hand - an astronomer has worked through the entire text!

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