8vo. xvi, 167 pp., of German text, 16 pp., of Arabic text, modern half-calf vellum, title gilt on spine, library stamp on front fly leaf & title page, light damp stain on margins of first 10 leaves not affecting text, small cut to top corner of page v without any loss to text, scattered foxing, Friedrich Ernst Huth for Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen, first edition, 1840.

Synopsis

Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, was a German orientalist, known as a literary historian of Arabic literature. He studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842-90). He published many important Arabic texts and valuable works on Arabic history.
This work is a selections from Arabic works on medicine and natural science in the original language appended with separate title page (in Arabic): extracts from the “Kitab tahdib al-asma”, by Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Nawawi, “Kitab ‘uyun alanba’ fi tabaqat al-atibba'”, by Ibn Abi Usaybi’a, and “Tabaqat as-safiiyya”, by Ibn Suhba. – The German orientalist H. F. Wüstenfeld (1808-99), considered one of the greatest literary historians of Arabic, studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842-90), and published many important Arabic texts and valuable works on Arabic history.
Bibliographic references: Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2345. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 342