Sphaera mundi, describens figuram terrae dispositionemque orbium coelestium & motus stellarum, autore Rabi Abraham Hispano filio R. Haijae [...].

2 parts in 1 vol., 4to: [6]-[2 bl.]-351-[1], [8]-[2 bl.]-207-[1] pp. (title of part 2 missing, minor soiling, sm. wormhole in lower corner of last ff.).

Nice German binding: blind-stamped pigskin, boards with fillets and roll-stamp (biblical ornaments), front cover stamped "I S" at top and dated 1558 at bottom, spine with raised bands (a few stains, corners sl. rubbed).

First edition of the most famous astronomy treatise by Abraham bar Hiyya (ca. 1065 -1136), a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher member of a Jewish community in Spain. He was known by several other names, including Savasorda, Abraham Judaeus, and, as he was identified in the following work, Abraham Hispano. With comments and explanation by Sebastian Münster. Printed in Hebrew and Latin. Contains also "Compendium arithmetices" by a Rabbi Elija Orientali, also in Hebrew and Latin, and "Quos Libros Osuualdus [...]" by Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs. Ill. with numerous woodcut figures and diagrams.
Ref. Adams A-33. - VD16 ZV-19. - USTC 661378. - STC German (BL) 1. - Zinner 1891. - Macclesfield 119.
Prov. Johannes St(h)enius Luneburgensis (ms. entry on title and initial "I S" on cover) (he matriculated at the University of Wittemberg in 1556). - Dorbon aîné, Paris (bookseller's stamp).