[ARITHMETIC]. Arithmetic of Joseph Roux, native of Roquevair - Lot 110

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[ARITHMETIC]. Arithmetic of Joseph Roux, native of Roquevair - Lot 110
[ARITHMETIC]. Arithmetic of Joseph Roux, native of Roquevaire, learned and put in the following order by the citizen Jean Baptiste Vérand, arithmetician of Marseille, teacher in Auriol on Fructidor 3, Year 8 of the French Republic. In folio of 624 pages, written in ink on the front and on the back, beautiful and perfectly legible writing, fawn-colored basane, spine with ornate nerves, red edges (period binding). An important manuscript, very well kept, containing the essentials of arithmetic to be known at the time and necessary "for those who are destined to work in some important position, either in the counters of the great merchants, or in the financial offices". The first part deals with various mathematical operations (multiplication, divisions, fractions, reductions, rules of three, etc.). The second part, more concrete, teaches the various rules, namely : Rules of gain, loss, treatise of surveying, pyramids, dials, etc... All this with precise examples of the time and a general table at the end. Almost all the pages are decorated with a colored composition with countless ornamented letters, pictures, paraphs, human heads, interlacing, flowers, animals, birds, etc... Good copy.
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