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Leap year, Arab Astronomy, Early works to 1800, CalendarShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Added engraved title page in Turkish.
Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
First facsimile reproduction of a oriental manuscript with engraved plates showing a Persian perpetual calendar and Arabian astronomy. The manuscript is now attributed to Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzjānī. Cf. Babinger.
The plates are signed: Melchior Haffner sculpsit; the added engraved title page is signed: Jo: Henricus Schoenfeld delin: Jo: Georg Waldreich sculp:.
Signatures: )(⁴(-)(4) 2)(⁴ A-T⁴ V².
Error in pagination: page 58 numbered 57.
VD17 39:124599N
In Latin, with quotes in Turkish, Greek and Hebrew.
Binding: cloth over boards; half morocoo; gilt title on spine
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