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<dl><dd>Binding: old tan paper (now spotted), with text showing through from inner side. In modern clam-shell box, quarter brown goatskin; author, title and imprint on spine in gilt</dd>
<dd>Imprint from colophon</dd>
<dd>"Inuentione nouamente trouata da Nicolo Tartalea brisciano, vtilissima p[er] ciascuno speculatiuo Mathematico, Bõbardiero [et] altri, intitolata Sciẽtia noua, diuisa in cinque libri ..." --Leaf *2r. There are nevertheless only 3 books in this ed</dd>
<dd>Sabio's device at colophon. Allegorical t.p. ill. depicting Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, and the mathematical disciplines; two shields at the top with the della Rovere and the Gonzaga arms. In-text cuts throughout. Initials</dd>
<dd>Signatures: *⁴ A-L⁴ (A⁴ blank)</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Ballistics; Mechanics</div>
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Tartaglia, Niccolò, -1557</div>
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