Antiquaria Ludwigsburg
35th Antiquaria Ludwigsburg
28 January 2021
Virtual event
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7"An astronomy fit for an emperor" (Owen Gingerich)Astronomicum Caesareum.Ingolstadt, May 1540.
InquireFirst edition of the "most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to 16th century science" (Gingerich). Copies in contemporary bindings are of the utmost rarity in the trade. Dedicated to Emperor Charles V and King Ferdinand, the book has been described as "a miracle of printing in folio format: most of the astronomical schemes and instruments …
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9Alhazen’s optics, this copy gifted by Wilhelm Xylander: the exceedingly rare first edition of a milestone in Arabic science[Kitab al-Manazir, latine]. Opticae thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, …Basel, August 1572.
€ 95,000.00First edition of "the most important work of its kind in Arabic literature" (cf. Poggendorf), this copy inscribed by the German humanist Wilhelm Xylander (1532-76), sometime rector of Heidelberg University.
Ibn al-Haytham (965-c. 1040), known as Alhazen in the Western tradition, has been hailed as "the greatest Muslim physicist and one of …
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11"Masterpiece of design"Alphabetum arabicum.Rome, 1592.
€ 28,000.00Only edition of this early milestone of Arabic typography from the Roman Medici Press, including a Latin treatise on Arabic script. The Medici Oriental Press, the first printing press in Europe dedicated to printing books in an Arabic typeface, was founded in Rome under the direction of Giovanni Battista Raimondi and the patronage of Pope Gregory …
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16Polyglot poems: an authorial manuscript bound for the KingPoemata anatolico-polyglotta seu plurium linguarum OO. in laudem Magni …Probably Turin, 1767.
€ 25,000.00A fine dedicatory manuscript, pre-dating the noted Hebraist's first published work: an assembly of polyglot odes by the 25-year-old scholar to the royal family of Sardinia, written in Aramaic, Arabic, Coptic, Ethopian, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and Syriac, all with their Latin translation opposite.
De Rossi studied at Ivrea and Turin. In 1769 he was …
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26The history of armour throughout the agesDer Harnisch von seinem Entstehen bis zu seinem Wiedervergehen in Bildern …Southern Germany, "1714" but apparently early 19th century.
€ 35,000.00Two striking series of highly decorative watercolours illustrating the history of armour throughout the ages. The first is purportedly copied after an earlier manuscript by the Augsburg artist G. P. Rugendas, dated 1714. The latter, with a date of 1688, is attributed to one "Matteo Argenteocorno" - a pseudonym for the goldsmith Matthäus Silberhorn …
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28The Sudhoff CollectionThe Sudhoff Collection of the History of Arabic Medicine, deaccessioned …Various places, 1855-1941.
€ 95,000.00A highly important ensemble of books on early Islamic medicine and science, assembled by one of the most renowned medical research institutes of its age, comprising not only rare historical and bibliographical studies, but also many first printed editions of crucial scientific texts in Arabic, frequently in the form of doctoral theses that remain …
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31"Secret" and "Confidential": The making of the most famous map of ArabiaCorrespondence relating to Fraser's classified map of Arabia and the Gulf.Mostly Simla and Dehra Dun, 1905-1906.
InquireThis letterbook containing correspondence on the research and preparation for F. F. Hunter's "Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf" (1908) forms an important source that reveals the extensive and detailed work behind the production of a milestone in the mapping of the Arabian Peninsula.
When Hunter joined the Survey of India from the Indian …