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Basel, H. Petri, 1546.2 texts in 1 volume 4to [195 x 140 mm] of : I/ (3) ll., (1) bl. l., 351 pp., (1) p. with mark; II/ (4) ll. (out of 5, bound without the Latin title of part 2), (1) bl. l., 207 pp., (1) p. with mark. Hebrew and Roman letters, illustration: woodcut figures and diagrams.
Bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards. The covers are decorated with a blind-stamped plate with a frieze of biblical scenes forming a frame. The upper cover is monogrammed and dated "I S 1558". Spine ribbed with handwritten title. Magnificent contemporary German binding.
Exceedingly rare original edition, bilingual Hebrew-Latin, of the most celebrated treatise on astronomy by Abraham Bar Hiyya (1065-1136), a Spanish Jewish mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
Adams A-33 ; VD16 ZV-19 ; USTC 661378 ; STC German 1; Zinner 1891; Macclesfield 119; Burmeister, Münster 146; Houzeau & Lancaster 1217; IA 100.165; Steinschneider 673.3; Zinner 1891.
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