?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
TARTAGLIA, NICCOLÒ. Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse. Large woodcut portrait of the author on title; 2 folding woodcut plates; woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout. 284 [i. e., 286] pages. 4to, 203x145 mm, modern boards; marginal soiling and dampstaining through most of volume, blank lower outer corner off N3. [Venice, 1606]
First part only of an edition of Tartaglia's collected writings. Originally published in 1546, Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse 'dealt with algebraic and geometric material (including the solution of the cubic equation), and such varied subjects as the firing of artillery, cannonballs, gunpowder, the disposition of infantry, topographical surveying, equilibrium in balances, and statics"--DSB XIII, 260. Riccardi II, 499.
