BROZEK, ARITHMETICA INTEGRORUM EDITA, KRAKOW, 1620

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (142 x 87mm.), title with woodcut vignette and arms of dedicatee on verso, diagrams and tables in the text, folding woodcut and letterpress table, some early annotations (cropped), later boards, binding slightly worn

Reiss & Auvermann, Auktion 46, 15-18 October 1991, lot 7, DM 1400, Erwin Tomash

Tomash & Williams B277; Estreicher, Bibliografia Polska, XIII, p.362

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Brozek was the foremost Polish mathematician of his time. His book deals with, among other things, arithmetic, finger numerals (differing from Bede and Pacioli), Napier’s bones, and also his chessboard abacus: "one of the few published references in the contemporary literature to this device" (Tomash & Williams).