- 161
Müteferrika,
估價
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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招標截止
描述
- Ibrahim--Fuyuzat-i-Miknatisiye. Constantinople: Müteferrika, AH 1144 [1731/2]
- paper
8vo (208 x 138mm.), 23 leaves plus final blank leaf, in Turkish, one double-page engraved compass plate (bound upside down), contemporary calf-backed boards, manuscript label on upper cover, worming in second half of book affecting a few words and lower cover, upper cover lacking small portion
拍品資料及來源
Rare at auction. This work, printed by Ibrahim Müteferrika at the first Turkish press in an edition of 500 copies, is a short treatise on magnetism and its uses, said to have been translated from the Latin, but almost certainly from Arabic.