BARTJENS, Willem.

£4,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Vernieuwde cyfferinge, Rare early editions of Bartjens's classic work on arithmetic, here combining both separately published parts, the first part originally published in 1604, the second in 1636.Bartjens here promotes double-entry bookkeeping, helping to make the practice standard in the Netherlands. He applies counting to specific systems of weights and currencies and offers many exercises dealing with questions of trade such as compound interest, but provides no algebra or geometry, a reflection of the mercantile class at which the book was aimed.Bartjens's work was many times reprinted and was the most popular textbook for almost 200 years in Holland, often reissued and progressively updated. Survival in such good condition is unusual.

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