AL-IDRISI Edrisii Africa [ed. Joannes Melchior Hartmann, 2nd ed.]. 1796Göttingen,J.Chr. Dieterich,8vo, cont. boards (rubbed), gilt flat spine with title label, green edges, cxxiv-530-[50] pp. Very good copy.
Estimation :
120 / 200
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550 €
Description
2nd ed. (1st 1792) of a trsl. of Idrisi’s geographical treatise on Arabian geography as it related to Africa. Muhammad al Idrisi (c.1099-1154), a Muslim geographer and cartographer, was employed by King Roger II of Sicily who commissioned Idrisi to compile a description of the “known world” which became known as the “Rogerian Treatise”. J. M. Hartmann (1764-1817) from the University of Marburg translated this work from a mediaeval ms. in original Arabic at the University of Jena. He also included notes by other Moslem writers on Africa, making this a compendium of known mediaeval Arabic writings on the geography of Africa. Ref. BL. BnF. Not in VD-18. Joined : Möllinger, Oskar - Lehrbuch der wichtigsten Kartenprojektionen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der stereographischen, Bonne’schen und Mercatorprojektion (…). Mit 50 in den text gedruckten Figuren. Zürich, C. Schmidt, 1882, 8vo, cont. boards (rubbed) by E.A. May (Basel), flat spine, viiii-142-[2] pp., 1 folding lithogr. pl. (paper age-toned). Good copy. (2 vols).
