OULOUG BEG IBN CHAHROUKH IBN TIMOUR KOURGĀN. SÉDILLOT, Louis - Lot 229

OULOUG BEG IBN CHAHROUKH IBN TIMOUR KOURGĀN. SÉDILLOT, Louis-Amélie. Prolégomènes des tables astronomiques d'Oloug-Beg, publiés avec notes et variantes et précédés, d'une introduction. Paris, Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1847. Large in-8, (3)-CLV-163 pp, [1] f., folding tables. Contemporary green half calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt and cold-stamped fillets, gilt author and title (spine a little faded, spine ends, headpieces and spine epidermized, light brown spots). First translation of the preface and treatise on astronomy by Oloug-Beg Ibn Chahroukh Ibn Timour Kourgān, published by the Institut de France in 1847. Here the part dedicated to Persian Chrestomathy astronomy. These astronomical tables were compiled in 15th-century Persia and then in Samarkand by Tamerlane's grandson and his mathematicians and astronomers. A detailed overview of astronomical science at the beginning of the 15th century. Consists of a title page, a title page, the original Persian text preceded by a long introduction with notes by Louis-Amélie Sédillot, and four fold-out tables. [Persia].