Larismethique Nouellement Composee Par Maistre Estienne De La Roche Dict Villefra N Che Natif De

by Estienne De La Roche

$18,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Lyon : Guillaume Huyon for Constantin Fradin, June 2, 1520. First edition, extremely rare, of the first published work on algebra in French. This is a fine copy in a beautiful contemporary binding. Born in Lyon, then the principal commercial centre of France, La Roche was a student of Nicolas Chuquet and published for the first time in the present work large sections from Chuquet’s Le Triparty en la Science des

• Binding: Hardcover

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