From the Abemayor collection

Hafiz Ishaq. Al-madkhal fi al-jughrafiya [An Introduction to Geography].

€ 12,500.00

A text on astronomy, probably a risalah (treatise), composed during the reign of the reform-minded Sultan Mahmud II. The fine illustrations show the planets, northern and southern hemispheres, etc.

Binding a little rubbed and bumped at extremeties; insignificant stains to interior. Provenance: from the private collection of Michel E. Abemayor (1912-1975) of New York, the last descendant of an important Cairo dynasty of dealers in Egyptian antiquities, with his collection ticket to front pastedown.