Orontii Finei delphin. regii mathematicarum professoris Aritmetica practica: libris quattuor absoluta, omnibus qui mathematicas ipsas tractare volunt perutilis, admodúmque necessaria: ex nouissima authoris recognitione, amplior, ac emendatior facta.

Accession number: 
PML 1819
Author: 
Fine, Oronce, 1494-1555.
Published: 
Parisiis : Ex officina Simonis Colinaei, 1542.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1906.
Description: 
68 . : tables. ; 32 cm
Notes: 

Leaf 3 numbered 2.
On back fleur-de-lis alternate with a bird, characteristic of books bound for Valois family.
Title-border, head-piece and ornamented initials designed by the author. Cf. Gilhofer & Ranschburg. Catalog 52, item 171.

Binding: 
Calf.
Provenance: 
Francis II's copy - as Dauphin. The "dolphin" stamp with small fleur-de-lis on sides.
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Classification: 
Binding Collection
Department: 
Printed Books