A CLASSIC OF COMPUTING
AGUCCHIA, Lattantio Il computista pagato di Lattantio Agucchia. Per trouare in un subito il conto fatto di qualunque sorte di pagamento, che si faccia, cosi à giorni, come à mesi, & anno. Rome: Giocomo Mascardi, 1613
FIRST EDITION., 4to., [viii], 176 pp.
Title within engraved borders, incorporating the arms of a cardinal, with a 4-line inscription. Complete with the dedication to Cardinal Giustiniani, imprimatur leaf and register. Nineteenth-century half-morocco, marbled boards, upper joint starting but sound; occasional waterstains, but generally a crisp copy with a sharp impression of the text., First edition. An extremely rare treatise computing wages, tables of interest, and usury. It enjoyed a lasting popularity, there being a reprint in the seventeenth century, and three in the eighteenth. It is surprising that it is unknown to Professor de Morgan, Brunet, Deschamps, and Poggendorff. In addition, we can find no trace of the author.
$US950
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