![ABRAHAM BEN CHIYA. [Hebrew] Sphaera mundi...Arithmetica secundum omnes species suas autore. Rabbi Elija [Mizrahi]. Basle: Heinricus Petri, 1546. 2 parts in one volume, 4to, bound in a fragment of a thirteenth-century scholastic legal manuscript on vellum, joints wormed, extending to catch last four leaves of text. Editio princeps of part I, Hebrew and Latin text, general title in red and black, full-page woodcut of a sphere on verso of title to part I, numerous astronomical woodcut diagrams in text, historiated initials, device at end of each part, with the blanks b2 part I and *4 part II. Adams A-33; Houzeau & Lancaster 1217; Prijs 75; Zedner, p. 15.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYE/1998_NYE_08105_0072_000(105151).jpg?w=1)
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ABRAHAM BEN CHIYA. [Hebrew] Sphaera mundi...Arithmetica secundum omnes species suas autore. Rabbi Elija [Mizrahi]. Basle: Heinricus Petri, 1546. 2 parts in one volume, 4to, bound in a fragment of a thirteenth-century scholastic legal manuscript on vellum, joints wormed, extending to catch last four leaves of text. Editio princeps of part I, Hebrew and Latin text, general title in red and black, full-page woodcut of a sphere on verso of title to part I, numerous astronomical woodcut diagrams in text, historiated initials, device at end of each part, with the blanks b2 part I and *4 part II. Adams A-33; Houzeau & Lancaster 1217; Prijs 75; Zedner, p. 15.
A twelfth-century astronomical treatise by Abraham ben Chiya (one of the leaders in the transmission of Arabic science to the Christian west) together with its arithmetical compendium by Elijah Mizrahi, translated into Latin by Oswald Schreckenfuchs, the Viennese astronomer, and annotated by Sebastian Mnster.
A twelfth-century astronomical treatise by Abraham ben Chiya (one of the leaders in the transmission of Arabic science to the Christian west) together with its arithmetical compendium by Elijah Mizrahi, translated into Latin by Oswald Schreckenfuchs, the Viennese astronomer, and annotated by Sebastian Mnster.
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Robert Honeyman IV (sale, Sotheby's London, 30 October 1978, 1600 Quaritch)