ABRAHAM BAR HIYYA; and MIZRAHI ELIJAH Sefer Tsurat ha Arets

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ABRAHAM BAR HIYYA; and MIZRAHI, ELIJAH. Sefer Tsurat ha-Arets . . . Kitsur ha-Melekhet Mispar [sic] . . . Sphaera mundi . . . Arithmetica secundum omnes species. Hebrew text with Latin translation by Oswald Schreckenfuchs and notes by Sebastian Münster. General title printed in red and black; woodcut astronomical diagrams in text. [12], 207, [1]; [8], 351, [1] pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary limp vellum, worn, lacking ties, spine darkened, with later shelf labels, book block loose in binding; contents dog-eared at beginning and end, occasional marginal soiling and stains, large blank corner off 2[kaf]3, Q1 (with Pythagorean table on verso) supplied from another copy. 19th-century stamps of the Rev'd A. L. Green and Jews' College, London, on title pages; old ink scrawls and signature of L. Cappel on general title. (Basel: Henricus Petri, August 1546)

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First edition of the first complete textbook of astronomy in Hebrew, by a Catalan Jewish philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer (d. circa 1136?); published here with the first abridged edition of the 1534 mathematical treatise Sefer ha-Mispar by the Ottoman rabbinic authority Elijah Mizrahi (d. 1526). EJ II, 132. Adams A33; DSB I, 22-23; Sarton II, 206-07; Vinograd, Basel 75.