WELSCH, Georg Hieronymus, ed.

Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus sive Tabulae aequinoctiales novi Persarum & Turcarum anni.

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Nunc primum editae è Bibliotheca Georgii Hieronymi Velschii cujus accedit Dissertatio, de earundem usu. Finely engraved frontis. & 22 engraved plates. 8 p.l. (incl. frontis.), 137, [19] pp. 4to, cont. smooth vellum over boards. Augsburg: T. Goebel, 1676. [bound with]:—. Hecatosteae. II. Observationum Physico-Medicarum ad illustrem Societatem Naturae Curiosorum in Germania. Twelve finely engraved plates (frontis. lacking). 4 p.l., 130, [6] pp.; 69, [27] pp. Two parts in one vol. 4to. Augsburg: T. Boebel, 1675. [bound with]:CAMERARIUS, Rudolf Jakob. Ephemerides Meteorologicae Tubingenses, ab Anno Seculi Nonagesimo Primo ad Quartum...Cum Ill. D. Bernardini Ramazzini Ephemeridibus Barometricis Mutinensibus, Anni M.DC.XCIV. 105, [1] pp.; 2 p.l., 60 pp. Two parts in one vol. 4to. Augsburg: Kroniger & Heirs of Goebel, 1696. A very attractive sammelband, containing three rare and unusual scientific books. I. First edition of the first facsimile of an oriental manuscript and a tour-de-force of engraving. This handsomely illustrated work contains 16 finely engraved plates by Melchior Haffner reproducing an astronomical/chronological text of Abu’l-Wafa (940-997 or 998), the “last great representative of the mathematics-astronomy school that arose around the beginning of the ninth century, shortly after the founding of Baghdad. With his colleagues, Abu’l-Wafa conducted astronomical observations at the Baghdad observatory. He continued the tradition of his predecessors, combining original scientific work with commentary on the classics — the works of Euclid and Diophantus.”–D.S.B., I, p. 40. Each of the plates reproduce a page of the manuscript with Persian text and Turkish commentary within intricate floral borders. The remaining seven plates depict scientific instruments and zodiacs. The translator and editor Welsch (1624-77), was one of the most scholarly medical and scientific writers of his time. He studied at Tübingen, Strasbourg, and Padua and became city physician of Augsburg. This text has also been attributed to Sheikh Wafa (d. 1493). II. First edition, written under the auspices of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum. “In this work he described the pharmacological uses of naturally occurring materials (e.g., animals, plants, minerals, and fossils). There is much of chemical interest and the author cites many chemists and their works (e.g., Beguin, Brendel, Digby, Helmont, Libavius, Ruland, Sennert, and Zwelfer).”–Neville, II, p. 621. The twelve plates depict crystals, minerals, fossils, etc. Lacking the frontispiece. III. First edition. Camerarius (1665-1721), is most famous for his experimental demonstration of the sexuality of plants. Less well known are his own important researches in meteorology and the barometer. The second part contains Ramazzini’s own work on the barometer (first published the year before in Modena). See Middleton, Invention of the Meteorological Instruments, p. 29. Fine and fresh copies from the library of the Solms ducal library at Lich with their early stamp on the first title. ❧ I. Hirsch, V, p. 895. Lalande, p. 285. Sarton, I, pp. 666-67–“one of the greatest Muslim mathematicians.” Schnurrer, p. 465.

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