The pathway to knowledge. : Conteyning certaine briefe tables of English waights, and measures, with the proportions, kindes, and numbers belonging properly vnto the same. How to cast accompt with counters, and with pen, both in whole, and broken numbers. With the rules of cossicke, surd, binomicall, & residuall numbers, and the rule of equation, or of algebere ... Whereunto is annexed a most excellent inuention of Iulius Caesar Patauinus, for the buying and selling of all kinde of marchandise. And lastly the order of keeping of a marchants booke, after the Italian manner, by debitor and creditor ... Together with a table ... Written in Dutch, and translated into English, by W.P.
1596
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Title
The pathway to knowledge. : Conteyning certaine briefe tables of English waights, and measures, with the proportions, kindes, and numbers belonging properly vnto the same. How to cast accompt with counters, and with pen, both in whole, and broken numbers. With the rules of cossicke, surd, binomicall, & residuall numbers, and the rule of equation, or of algebere ... Whereunto is annexed a most excellent inuention of Iulius Caesar Patauinus, for the buying and selling of all kinde of marchandise. And lastly the order of keeping of a marchants booke, after the Italian manner, by debitor and creditor ... Together with a table ... Written in Dutch, and translated into English, by W.P.
Uniform title
Practique om te leeren reeckenen en cypheren. English
Created/published
Printed at London : [By Abel Jeffes and others] for William Barley, and are to be sould at his shop at the vpper end of Gratious street, 1596.
Description
[260] p., folded leaf : ill. (woodcuts) ; (4to)
Associated name
Petri, Nicolaus, -1602, author.
Phillip, William.
Caesar, Julius, of Padua.
Barley, William, 1565?-1614, bookseller.
Phillip, William.
Caesar, Julius, of Padua.
Barley, William, 1565?-1614, bookseller.
Note
A translation of: Petri, Nicolaus. Practique om te leeren reeckenen, cypheren ende boeckhouwen.
W.P. = William Phillip.
Printer's name from STC addendum.
Signatures: A⁴ ²A-B⁴ D⁴ chi² ²B-X⁴ *⁴ Y-2E⁴.
The folded leaf is signed "C".
"Finis" on X4r.
Entered to T. Nelson 31 May 1592.
W.P. = William Phillip.
Printer's name from STC addendum.
Signatures: A⁴ ²A-B⁴ D⁴ chi² ²B-X⁴ *⁴ Y-2E⁴.
The folded leaf is signed "C".
"Finis" on X4r.
Entered to T. Nelson 31 May 1592.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 19799
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S114577
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S114577
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 19799
Folger-specific note
202556. Lacking gathering Y. Manuscript (petition for a ship) removed and catalogued separately 6/70. Bound with Lilly, William. An astrologicall prediction. London, 1648 (Wing L2211.2)