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The Erwin Tomash Library On The History Of Computing
18 September 2018 • London
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Sale Number: L18409
942 lots
1. L’arithmetique, arpentage universel geometrie inaccessible, toise des Bastimens, la Fabrique & usage des quadrans Sollaires & autre Geometrie par la Regle, & le Compas. Rouen: Pierre Loyselet, 1621
Estimate: 700 – 900 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
2. Geometrical and graphical essays, containing a description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective. London: printed for the author by R. Hindmarsh, 1791
Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
3. Two volumes, comprising:
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
4. Libri quinque de mensuris & ponderibus, in quibus plaeraque a Budaeo & Portio parum animadversa diligenter excutiuntur. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1533
Estimate: 700 – 900 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
5. De mensuris et ponderibus Romanorum atque Graecorum lib V. De externis mensuris et ponderibus lib II. Ad ea, quae Andreas Alciatus denuo disputavit de mensuris et ponderibus, brevis defensio lib I. De mensuris, quibus intervalla metimur lib I. De restituendis ponderibus atque mensuris lib I. De precio metallorum et monetis lib III. Basel: (Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius), 1550
Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
6. 2 volumes on interest tables, comprising:
Estimate: 700 – 900 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
7. I giuochi numerici fatti arcani palesati... quarta edizione. Venice: Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1795
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
8. Tabulae astronomicae. Johannes Danck: Canones in tabulas Alphonsi. [Venice]: Erhard Ratdolt, 4 July 1483
Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
9. Tabule astronomice... nuper quam diligentissime cum additionibus emendate. Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein, 1518 (1521)
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
10. Il microscopio de’ computisti, o sia economia prattica. Palermo: Angelo Felicella, 1740
Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
11. Computus cum commento. Lyon: Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyon), 10 February 1488/89
Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
12. Computus cum commento. [Basel: Lienhart Ysenhut, about 1495]
Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
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