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MUHAMMAD IBN MUSA AL-KHWARIZMI. The Algebra of Mohammed ben Musa. Arabic text with English translation by Friedrich August Rosen. xvi, 208; [4], 122, [2] pages, including Arabic and English half-titles, and Arabic errata leaf. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 217x140 mm, contemporary 1/2 vellum gilt with white ink shelf number on spine; contents clean apart from institutional markings. Embossed stamp of the library of Grove City College on title, accession number on next leaf, bookplate and deaccession stamp on front pastedown, and date due slip and card pocket on rear endpapers. London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund and sold by J. Murray et al., 1831
first edition in the original arabic andfirst edition in english of the first book on algebra, written in the early 9th century by one of the preeminent Muslim mathematicians of the Middle Ages. DSB VII, 364; Sarton I, 563.
