Live auction - Lot 638
[Mathematics]
Personal textbook of mathematics, esp. commercial arithmetics.
Wilmarsdonk, 1783-1784
Hammer price: €
300
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
C. 27,5 x 20 cm: [136] ff. + some blanks, paper, Dutch (ff. 110-113 written upside down).
Contemp. limp vellum limp, flat spine, cloth ties, red edges (sl. loosening, endpapers lifted). Good condition.
On f. 125r "Eynde van het eerste deel van meester Willem Bartjens faite par moi Corneille van Reeth ecrit en l’an 1783 Wilmersdonk". The 1st part contains personal copies, solutions, additions to mathematical problems proposed in the immensely popular mathematical textbook of the Amsterdam schoolmaster Bartjens (1569-1638). Wilmarsdonk was a former village north of Antwerp (now absorbed in the Antwerp harbour). On f. 112 "om eene carte figuratief te maken".