Kitab Al-Hiyal. The Book of Ingenious Devices.

DESCRIPTION

4 to, xi, 22 pp of English text + 442 pp of Arabic text, publisher’s original wrappers, cover slightly soiled and worn out, spine wrinkled, otherwise copy very clean from inside and in very good condition, 20 b/w plates, 103 figures, biblio, index, Edited by Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan, with the collaboration of Mohammad ‘Ali Khayyata & Mustafa Ta’muri, Sources and studies in the history of Arabic-Islamic Science, History of technology, Series 3, Book published on the occasion of the begining of the fifteenth century of Hijra, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, Aleppo ( Syria), First Edition, 1981.