Commentatio de Geographia Africae Edrisiana

by Johann Melchior Hartmann

$6,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

iv, 170, 10 pages. 4to. Early pastepaper covered boards, some losses to paper. Perforated stamp to title and terminal leaf, bookplate. Item #372069 Johann Melchior Hartmann's edition of a Latin translation of the original Arabic version of a part of Abu Abdallah Mahommed Ibn Mahommed Ibn Abdallah Ibn Idrisi's Geography relating to Africa. Hartmann's commentary includes notices on each region from other writers, thus forming a fairly complete

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