Astronomy & Astrology

New: HISTORY OF SCIENCE & MEDICINE IN ISLAM

RESEARCH LIBRARY OF PROFESSOR HANS-HINRICH BIESTERFELDT  (University of Bochum)

❧ 130 titles in a total of 151 volumes
❧ 36% in Arabic, 28% in German, 27% in English, and other languages
❧ Focus on transmission, editing, and study of Greek and Arabic knowledge of medicine, astronomy, mathematics and philosophy.
❧ Books are in very good condition
❧ Complete list of all titles is attached to the below flyer.
❧ NEW: The collection is catalogued in Zotero which enables us to supply you with bibliographic data in a variety of standard formats.

The collection is being sold in its entirety.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE is the most important subject. Examples are three Göttingen Academy volumes on the Arabic Dioscorides tradition, each with the Arabic text and an annotated German translation: the anonymous Dioscurides triumphans, Ibn al-Bayṭār’s Dioskurides-Erklärung and Die Ergänzung Ibn Ğulğul’s. Ibn al-Jazzār’s Zād al-musāfir is present in three critical editions: Book 6, Book 7, chapters 1 to 6, and Books III to V. Two Cairo editions are based on the only two known manuscripts: al-Ġāfiqī’s Muntaḫab, fascicles II to I...
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