v. 1. The Eastern astrolabes -- v. 2. The Western astrolabes. by Robert T. Gunther, M.A., Hon. LL. D., curator of the Lewis Evans Collection in the... Show morev. 1. The Eastern astrolabes -- v. 2. The Western astrolabes. by Robert T. Gunther, M.A., Hon. LL. D., curator of the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. Paged continuously. Volume 1 has 68 leaves of plates; volume 2 has 85 leaves of plates. Volume 1 contains facsimile reprint of "Description of a planispheric astrolabe, constucted for Sháh Sultán Husain Safawí, King of Persia, and now preserved in the British Museum; comprising an account of the astrolabe generally, with notes illustrative and explanatory: to which are added, concise notices of twelve other astrolabes, eastern and European, hitherto undescribed. By William H. Morely. Williams and Norgate, 14, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London; 20, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh. Benj. Duprat, Paris. F.A. Brockhaus, Leipsig. MDCCCLVI." Bound in white cloth with gilt design of an astrolabe on front covers. "The literature": p. [565]-575. "Bibliography of the astrolabe": p. [576]-598. Show less