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MUHAMMAD IBN MUHAMMAD al-Idrisi. Kitab Nuzhat al-mustaq fi dikr al-amsar wal-aqtar wal-buldan wal-guzur wal-mada'in wa'l-afaq. Rome: tipografia Medicea, 1592.
4°. Every page within a line-border with an ornament at the centre of each side, woodcut cartouche on p.2, with the final blank. (Some quires browned.) 17th-century vellum with ties. Provenance: the Liechtenstein copy (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ARABIC of al-Idrisi's De geographia vniuersali composed in 1154 at the court of Roger II of Sicily and thus also known as the Book of Roger. For a long time it was the only extant edition, the first complete translation (by Jaubert) not being being published until 1836-40. Like most of the books from the Medicean Press it is rare.
4°. Every page within a line-border with an ornament at the centre of each side, woodcut cartouche on p.2, with the final blank. (Some quires browned.) 17th-century vellum with ties. Provenance: the Liechtenstein copy (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ARABIC of al-Idrisi's De geographia vniuersali composed in 1154 at the court of Roger II of Sicily and thus also known as the Book of Roger. For a long time it was the only extant edition, the first complete translation (by Jaubert) not being being published until 1836-40. Like most of the books from the Medicean Press it is rare.