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SA'ADI, SHIRAZI (1210 – 1291 or 1292)Biblio.com

Sa’adi Shirazi 1210 – 1291 or 1292. Gulistan The Rose Garden. Bombay: Sharafali Ali Bahai Mohammedi Typ. 1299 H. 1882.

ref. O16Quarto ca. 28x195 cm. 252 pp. numbered in Eastern Arabic system. Text in Farsi title page decorated with elaborate floral ornaments. Period ink notes in French and Farsi on both endpapers the note on the rear endpaper is dated 1303 H. 1886 and reads in translation: “It’s the property of Allah and after the property of Amun Ali abd Al-Ali ibn Akbar ali Khan God bless him.” Period Indian brown half sheep with marbled papered boards renewed gilt lettered title label and gilt tooled borders on the spine and corners. Binding rubbed on extremities a minor chip of marbled paper on the rear board paper slightly age toned but overall a very good copy. Rare Indian imprint in Farsi with no paper copies found in Worldcat. Interesting edition of the famous “Gulistan” by Saadi Shirazi one of the greatest poets in the classical Persian literary tradition. As follows from the afterword the Bombay edition was approved by Sheikh Ghulam Muhi ad-Din and edited by Abd ar-Rauf. Commentaries on the margins include references to Ali Bahai; the main text is followed by “khatima” or afterword. The author Sa’adi Shirazi known as the “Master of Speech” created thousands of mystical romantic poems long forms with irregular rhythm – qasidas religious hymns etc. “Gulistan” was composed in 1258 AD and is Sa’adi’s second major work after “Bustan” “Garden”. It consists of small stories of aphoristic character with elegant intricate plots expressed in precise and exact lines. This “multi-layered” poem led to the creation of an Iranian saying: “Every line of Sa’adi has 72 meanings”. Gulistan contains hidden context of Sufi character and is deeply connected with the teachings of as-Suhrawerdi. b. 1155. The poem influenced both Western and Eastern tradition and showed new moral practical philosophical and mystical dimensions of small literary forms. hardcover

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[SA'ADI SHIRAZI], (1210 – 1291 or 1292), [KĀŠEFI, Kamāl-Al-Din Ḥosayn Wāʿeẓ] (1436/37-1504/5).Biblio.com

Sa’adi Shirazi 1210 – 1291 or 1292 KÄsefi KamÄl-Al-Din Ḥosayn WÄÊ¿eẓ 1436/37-1504/5. The Iqd-I Gul Being a Selection from the Gulistan and Anwar-i Sohaili. For the use of the Students of the Anglo-Persian Department of the Calcutta Madrasah/ Ed. By W. Nassau Lees and Mawlawi Kabir Al Din Ahmad. Lees’ Persian Series. No. Vii. Prose No. IV. Calcutta: College Press 1863.

ref. O17First edition. Octavo ca. 235x165 cm. With two title pages in English and Farsi. 348 pp. numbered in Eastern Arabic system. Text in Farsi. With numerous ink and pencil written commentaries in English Arabic and Farsi on verso of the title page and in text. Period brown full sheep with gilt lettered title “Lees. Persian Series” on the front board and a gilt lettered title label on the spine; marbled endpapers bookseller’s paper label Arthur Probsthain Oriental Bookseller London in the left lower corner of the front pastedown endpaper. Binding slightly rubbed paper slightly age toned otherwise a very good copy. Very rare Indian imprint with only four paper copies found in Worldcat. Second unaltered edition was published under the same title in 1871. “The Iqd-I Gul” or “The Rose Necklace” is a collection of short stories aphorisms and parables from the famous “Gulistan” by Sa’adi Shirazi and “Anwar-I Sohail” or “The light of Canopus” by Ḥosayn WÄÊ¿eẓ KĚefī b. 1502. “Gulistan” is Sa’adi’s second major work after the “Bustan” “Garden”. It consists of small stories of aphoristic character with elegant intricate plots expressed in precise and exact lines. This “multi-layered” poem led to the creation of an Iranian saying: “Every line of Sa’adi has 72 meanings”. Gulistan contains hidden context of Sufi character and is deeply connected with the teachings of as-Suhrawerdi. b. 1155. “Anwar-I Sohail” is a book of fables inspired by the classical Indian moral stories of “Kalila wa Dimna” and early Arabic works of Ibn al-Muqaffa’ 724-760; it consists of fourteen chapters “commissioned by and dedicated to the Timurid amir Neáº“Äm-al-Din Sheikh Aḥmad Sohayli whose name is alluded to in the title” Encyclopaedia Iranica online. The collection was assembled by the principal of the Calcutta Madrasa and a noted orientalist William Nassau Lees 1825-89. “He was for some years principal of the Madrásá or Mohammedan College Calcutta averaging four hundred students in which institution he was also professor of law logic literature and mathematics. He was likewise secretary to the college of Fort William Persian translator to the government and government examiner in Arabic Persian and Urdu for all branches of the service besides being for some years part proprietor of the ‘Times of India’ newspaper and was an incessant contributor to the daily press on all Indian topics political military and economical. In 1857 the university of Dublin conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. and he was also a doctor in philosophy of Berlin. He became a member of the Royal Asiatic Society London in 1872”. The “Iqd-I Gul” consists of several parts titled “Dervish’s Morals” “Padishah’s Lessons” etc. Our copy is interspersed with period ink marginalia apparently made by a student of the Calcutta Madrasa among which are translations of specific words and expressions remarks on the stories dates when a particular story was read mainly in 1875 et al.: “grazing fields of Paradise” p. 114 “Bravo!” p. 118 “Story of the Raven & the Serpent” p. 205 “Story of the Hare and the Wolf” p. 210 et al. unknown

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Fibonacci, Leonardo (Leonardo Pisano or Leonardo of Pisa)Biblio.com

FIRST EDITION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS. Scritti de Leonardo Pisano Matematico del Secolo Decimoterzo: II Liber Abbaci; Practica Geometriae Opuscoli

1862ref. 4120Rome: Tipografia delle Scienze Mathematiche e Fisiche 1862. Very good. 2 vols. folio. Numerous diagrams; occasional light spotting and foxing. Modern brown morocco uncut. In slipcases. EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE WRITINGS OF FIBONACCI THE GREATEST MATHEMATICIAN OF THE MIDDLE AGES STILL THE ONLY COMPLETE EDITION PUBLISHED. IN THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS THIS UNABRIDGED EDITION OF THE LATIN TEXT IS ESSENTIAL AND WAS THE VEHICLE BY WHICH FIBONACCI'S WORKS WERE DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE. Rare in private ownership. This copy which sold at Sotheby's forty years ago is the ONLY copy that has ever appeared at public auction according to Rare Book Hub which currently lists more than 15 million records in the Rare Book Transactions database; furthermore it is the only copy currently available on the market. Leonardo of Pisa ca. 1170-1250 a.k.a. Fibonacci is justly considered to be the most important mathematician of the Middle Ages if only for being the first Christian mathematician to systematically explain Arabic numerals. Indeed the mathematical renaissance in the West began with him according to George Sarton. The first volume contains the the 'Liber Abaci' devoted to problems of computation including algebraic quadratic problems; here Fibonnaci here introduces Arabic numerals the fraction bar and the numerical approach to square roots and cube roots. The second volume contains the 'Practica Geometriae' devoted to the application of algebra to geometric problems; 'Flos' written for Frederick II in answer to a number of mathematical problems posed by Magister Johannes; "Letter to Magister Theodorus" developing a general method for the solution of indeterminate problems; and finally the great "Liber quadratorum" described by Vogel as "a first-rate scientific achievement and showing Fibonacci as "a major number theorist." Vogel continues to assert correctly that Fibonacci was far ahead of his time without a successor until 1621 when Bachet made the text of Diophantus available which in turn stimulated Fermat in founding number theory. "In addition to the antique manuscripts there also undeniably exists however a vehicle that notwithstanding the inadequate and problematic access to the manuscript sources has spread the text of the Fibonaccian treatise throughout modern and contemporary culture: the well known Italian mathematician and historian of science Baldassarre Boncompagni Ludovisi in fact in his brilliant far-reaching project which brought into focus the personality of Fibonacci as well as his surviving works realized and published in Rome in 1857 i.e. THIS EDITION what can with ample justification be defined the editio princeps of the entire treatise." Germano. Despite the flaws in Boncompagni's work "it of course was a noteworthy editorial operation especially as it made available in print to a vast number of interested parties a work which had almost fallen into oblivion and that up to that time could be consulted only from its manuscript sources with all the difficulties and inconvenience which this could entail." Germano. It is fair to say that Fibonacci's contributions to mathematics languished unappreciated until the rediscovery of his texts and their presentation in the present -- surprisingly rare -- volumes. Despite its flaws Boncompagni's edition serves as the basis for only complete translation of the Liber Abici made into a modern language thus far namely Lawrence E. Sigler's "Fibonacci's Liber Abaci. A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano's Book of Calculation" 2002. Whereas Sigler corrected some errors he introduced many others usually on account of inability to understand and effectively translate the Renaissance Latin text. Before Boncompagni's edition only the "Prologus" and Chapter XV of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci had received a respectful circulation in print that was due to G. Libri's "Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie dépuis la renaissance des lettres jusqu'à la fin du dixseptième siècle" Paris 1838 vol. II respectively pp. 287-290 and 307-476. REFERENCES: Giuseppe Germano "The Modern Dissemination in Print of the 'Liber Abaci' and its Pitfalls" Part 3 of his New Editorial Perspectives on Fibonacci's Liber Abaci in: Reti Medievali Rivista 14:2 Firenze University Press 2013 pp. 161-163 and passim. George Sarton Introduction to the History of Science II p. 611 et seq. On Boncompagni see V. Cappelletti's in DBI XI pp. 704-709. M. Mazzotti "For Science and for the Pope-King: Writing the History of the Exact Sciences in 19th-century Rome" in: British Journal for the History of Science 33 2000 pp. 257-282 especially pp. 259-265. On the strengths and weaknesses of Boncompagni's edition see R.E. Grimm "The Autobiography of Leonardo Pisano" in: The Fibonacci Quarterly 11 1973 pp. 99-104. John D. Stanitz Sources of Science and Technology: an Exhibit of One Hundred and One Books and Documents Kent State 1972 no. 14 this copy. PROVENANCE: John D. Stanitz his sale Sotheby's New York 25 April 1984 lot 268 with with Sotheby's label on the slipcase of vol. II --> Messrs. Bernard Quaritch June 1984 Mathematics list $3000 --> James M. Vaughn 1939-2022 enigmatic American philanthropist and bibliophile who assembled the finest mathematics collection ever formed by a private individual: 125 rare and foundational books in the history of mathematics were donated to the Harry Ransom Center in 2021; our volume was kept in Vaughn's home in River Oaks Houston and sold to us by his estate. Vaughn funded the Mathematical Association of America and helped support the solution of the 300-year-old math puzzle Fermat's Last Theorem; it is therefore meaningful that he owned this copy of the Editio Princeps of the complete works of Fibonacci. With J.M.V. bookplate in each volume. Tipografia delle Scienze Mathematiche e Fisiche unknown

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