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The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir. J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection and in other public and private collections

Title: The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir. J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection and in other public and private collections / by Robert T. Gunther, M. A., Hon. LL.D., curator of the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
Author: Gunther, R. T. (Robert Theodore), 1869-1940.
Publication: Oxford : Printed at the University Press, 1932.

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2 v. : ill.; 30 cm.

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Paged continuously.
Volume 1 has 68 leaves of plates; volume 2 has 85 leaves of plates.
Volume 1 contains facsimile reprint of "Description of a planispheric astrolabe, constucted for Sháh Sultán Husain Safawí, King of Persia, and now preserved in the British Museum; comprising an account of the astrolabe generally, with notes illustrative and explanatory: to which are added, concise notices of twelve other astrolabes, eastern and European, hitherto undescribed. By William H. Morely. Williams and Norgate, 14, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London; 20, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh. Benj. Duprat, Paris. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipsig. MDCCCLVI."
Bound in white cloth with gilt design of an astrolabe on front covers.

Bibliography (note)

"The literature": p. [565]-575.
"Bibliography of the astrolabe": p. [576]-598.

Call Number

ONK+ (Gunther, R. W. T. Astrolabes of the world)

LCCN

33010688

OCLC

18919330

Author

Gunther, R. T. (Robert Theodore), 1869-1940.

Title

The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir. J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection and in other public and private collections / by Robert T. Gunther, M. A., Hon. LL.D., curator of the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

Imprint

Oxford : Printed at the University Press, 1932.

Bibliography

"The literature": p. [565]-575.

"Bibliography of the astrolabe": p. [576]-598.

Local Note

Copies numbered and autographed by author; this copy no. 23.

Added Author

Morley, William H. (William Hook), 1815-1860.

Ashmolean Museum. Evans Collection.

John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Research Call Number

ONK+ (Gunther, R. W. T. Astrolabes of the world)

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