Live auction - Lot 1078
[Mathematics]
Ludus serio expensus a Iosepho Maria Stampa C.R. Somaschensi. Nec non eiusdem De arithmetica progressione tractatus [...].
Milan, I.P. Malatesta, 1700
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [8]-87-[1] pp. (some spotting, some ink stains).
Contemp. vellum (upper border lower cover visibly repaired), spine with 5 raised bands.
First edition by the Italian Professor and Somascan father G.M. Stampa (1666-1734). The first part "Ludus serio expensus" written in Latin and Italian verses and prose deals with gambling and the lottery game. The second part "De arithmetica progressione" is a mathematical treatise on the use of mathematical progressions for the study of probabilistic calculation applied to gambling. One folding table.
Ref. Opac SBN. - Riccardi II:475. - COPAC.
Prov. "D. Angeli Spinu" (ms. ex dono). - Mod. labels.