Higher geometry and trigonometry : being the third part of a series on elementary and higher geometry, trigonomentary and mensuration : containing many valuable discoveries and improvements in mathematical science, especially in relation to the quadrature of the circle, and some other curves, as well as the cubature of certain curvilinear solids : designed as a text-book for collegiate and academic instruction, and as a practical compendium of mensuration /

With: Higher geometry and mensuration / by Nathan Scholfield.

[al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī madḥ khayr al-barīyah, 16th century?].

Fine copy of al-Būṣīrī's poem in praise of the Prophet accompanied by elucidation in Persian and Turkish.

Einleitung in die allgemeine Theorie der krummen Flächen.

Available on demand as hard copy or computer file from Cornell University Library.

Qānūnchah fī al-ṭibb, [880, i.e. 1475 or 1476].

Fine copy of al-Jaghmīnī's (d.1344) Qānūnchah, a compendium on medicine and an extract from Ibn Sīnā’s Qānūn. Brockelmann treats this author as distinct from an astronomer of the same name who died in 1221.

Nazm-ı Dilârâ, [1231, i.e. 1815 or 1816].

Elegant autograph copy of the versified Persian-Turkish glossary of the müderris Osman Şakir (whose name appears in Īḍāḥ al-maknūn as ʻUthmān Shukrī, d.1818?). Apparently inspired by the popular Tuhfe-yi Vehbî (used for many years in Ottoman schools) of Sünbülzâde Vehbi Mehmet Efendi (d.1809), see opening matter on p.5-15.