HIGHLY INTERESTING ARABIC MANUSCRIPT ON LOGIC AND GRAMMAR DA-UD AL-ASHKASI & HUSAM AL-DIN AL-KATI. Commentary on Aḥmad ibn Masʻūd’s (+) Commentary on Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī’s.
(Presumably Yemen), 1772. Unrecorded Arabic manuscript containing two highly important treatises, the first of which is of the utmost scarcity (only three other manuscript copies of the work are known), and the other of which is of the utmost importance to the development of logic in the Arab world. The two works bound here on logic and grammar have clearly been thoroughly studied, both by the scribe, whose name has sadly been erased, and by later readers. The comments almost constitute a work in its own, and there may be much new material to be found here, for the serious scholar. This kind of supercommentary is extremely interesting and will reveal a lot about the development of logic in the Arab world over the numerous centuries that this supercommentary has come to cover - documenting an entire tradition of one of the most important disciplines from the middle ages. USD 42,400.00

We are specialized in science,medicine,philosophy, economics, politics, and history of ideas in general, in the period from the 15thto the 20thcentury. Below are short-title descriptions of the books that we are showing at the New YorkInternationalAntiquarian Book Fair2022. Full descriptions of all of our books are available. Please visit us in BOOTH C18.

ILLUMINATED AND COLOURED GIFT-COPY OF BRAHE’S SEMINAL INSTRUMENT BOOK BRAHE, TYCHO.
Astronomiae instauratae Mechanica. Wandesburg (i.e. Wandsbeck, for the author by Philip Ohrs), 1598. Exceedingly scarce first edition, hand-coloured gift-copy in the original gift-binding (re-cased) with a remarkable provenance, of Tycho Brahe’s monumental work, in which he depicts and describes his groundbreaking astronomical instruments as well as his observatory on Hven, gives an account of his contributions to astronomy, and showcases the beginning new astronomy and the invention of modern empirical science. One of presumably 60 copies printed, all produced for private distribution only, as the entire print run of the first printing were meant as presentation-copies, and one of ab. 40 copies known. Almost all surviving copies are in institutions.

15TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT COPY OF THE KEY WORK OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY BOETHIUS, De Consolatione Philosophiae.
(Venice, 1470'ies - 80'ies). A truly magnificent and rare complete Medieval manuscript copy of one of the most significant philosophical texts ever written, Boethius’ magnum opus. The seminal Consolation of Philosophy revolutionized modern thought and influenced medieval and renaissance philosophy to an unprecedented degree. Although one of the most widely read and studied works of the Middle Ages, Medieval manuscript copies of the “Consolation of Philosophy” are very rare on the market. USD 83,000.00

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF HOBBES'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK THUCYDIDES (THOMAS HOBBES transl.).
Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre. 1629. Very scarce first edition, first issue of Hobbes’s first published work, being his seminal translation of Thucydides’ Eight Books on the Peloponnesian War, also constituting the first translation of the work into English from the original Greek. The work is of the utmost importance to the development and shaping of political modernity and lies at the heart of Hobbes’ civil science. USD 33,500.00

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