Adriani Metii Alcmariani Arithmeticae libri duo, et geometriae lib. VI : huic adiungitur trigonometriae planorum methodus succincta : altera veró, praeter alia, nova regulae proportionalis inventa proponit : et quaecunque loca adversus hostium insultus iuxta hoc seculo praxin (quam fortificationem vocant) munire solide docet.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Metius, Adriaan Adriaansz, 1570-1635.

Contributor:

• Elzevir, Abraham, 1592-1652, publisher.
• Elzevir, Bonaventure, 1583-1652, publisher.
• Balck, Uldericus, printer.
• Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Mathematics--Early works to 1800.
• Mathematics.
• Geometry--Early works to 1800.
• Geometry.

Penn Provenance:

• Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882- (donor) (autograph) (bookplate)
• Craven, J. B. (James Brown), 1850-1924 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 118 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 308, that is, 320 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 102, that is, 104 pages, 14 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates (folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

• Arithmeticae libri duo
• Geometriae libri VI

Place of Publication:

Lugd. Batavorum : Ex officina Elzeviriana, anno MDCXXVI [1626]

Notes:

• Published by Abraham and Bonaventure Elzevir; printed by Uldericus Balck. Cf. Willems and Rahir.
• The "Geometriae libri VI", has combined parts 1 & 2 and parts 3, 4, 5, and 6 each have special t.p. with imprint (with slight variation): Franekerae, Excudebat Uldericus Balck, ordinum Frisiae [et] eorundem Academiae Typographus. Anno 1625.
• Signatures: (*)⁴ (.?.)⁴ A-O⁴ P⁴(-P4), ²pi1 A-2N⁴ chi² 2O-2P⁴ 2Q⁸ 2R-3F⁴ 2G⁴ 2H².
• Page numbers 233-240, fourth count, repeated in sequence.
• Engraved illustrated t.p.
• Woodcuts: devices; initials; ill.; head- and tail-pieces.
• Errata on p. [16], first count; p. [2], third count.

Local Notes:

• Imperfect: p. 295 (2O4), fourth count, torn on outside margin with no loss of text.
• Binding: spine has 19th century waste paper.
• Bound with: Lansberg, Philips van. Philippi Lansbergii Chronologiae sacrae libri III. Middelburgi : Excudebat vidua & haeredes Simonis Moulertij, illustrium Zelandiae Ordd. typographi, MDCXXV [1625].

Cited in:

• Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press 3061
• Willems, A. Elzevier 255
• Rahir, E. Elzevier 216
• Berghman, G. Suppl. à Willems 154

OCLC:

60357496