Lot 32
GASPAR, Nicolas. Tratado, e arte de Arismetica para fazer hum perfeyto Cayxeyro. Edited by Manuel de Figueiredo. Lisbon: Bernardo da Costa de Carvalho, 1716.
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May 4, 2022
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GASPAR, Nicolas. Tratado, e arte de Arismetica para fazer hum perfeyto Cayxeyro. Edited by Manuel de Figueiredo. Lisbon: Bernardo da Costa de Carvalho, 1716.
12mo (149 x 98mm). Contemporary vellum (recased, upper cover a little discolored and with old library shelf stamp). Provenance: early inscription on title; Agost. Descalc de Coimbra (stamps on title).
Gaspar’s major work was originally published in 1516, but here edited and amended by Manuel de Figueiredo. Tipped into this copy at front is a printed broadside containing Pope Clement XI’s writ in favor of libraries Breve ad favorem bibliothecarum dated 23 January 1721.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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