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A Brief Introduction to the Scientific and Medical Holdings of the Arcadian Library

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...The field in which Arab and Persian contributions to progress was most widely acknowledged in the West was science. In spite of criticisms which started in the Renaissance and increased during the scientific revolution preceding...

A survey of the fauna of Iraq: mammals, birds, reptiles, etc. made by members of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force D 1915-1919.

...First and only edition of a collection of papers on Iraqi zoology by members of the British Expeditionary Forces in Mesopotamia and Persia, based on specimens collected during the First World War and first published in the Journal...

Reliqva librorvm Friderici II. Imperatoris, De arte venandi cum auibus, cvm Manfredi regis additionibus. Ex membranis vetustis nunc primùm edita. Albertvs Magnvs De Falconibus, Asturibus, & Accipitribus.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

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Albertus, Magnus, Saint,

...The first edition of this work on falconry and ornithology. Long recognized as “the first zoological treatise written in the critical spirit of modern science” (Shearer, 1935), De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (lit. “The art of hunting...

كتاب الفلاحة لابن العوام

Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-ʻAwwām

...The entire text of this rare and important medieval Arabic text copied by an eighteenth-century Spanish Orientalist. The most important work on Spanish agriculture and horticulture in the Middle Ages, written by an Arab living in Seville...

Chalef elahmar's Qasside: Berichtigter arabischer Text, Uebersetzung und Commentar, mit Benutzung vieler handschriftlichen Quellen. Nebst Würdigung Josef von Hammer's als Arabisten, von W. Ahlwardt, Privatdocent an der Universität Greifswald.

Khalaf al-Aḥmar

...The first monograph of Arabian hippology, based on Hammer’s famous study of Halaf al-Ahmar’s eighth-century qasida on the pleasures of riding and hunting. With a revised text, translation and a list of hippological terminology. Contains...

The natural history of Aleppo and parts adjacent : containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases, particularly of the plague with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation / by Alex. Russel.

Alexander Russell

...The first edition, by Alexander Russell, a Scottish physician to the Levant Company in Aleppo, appeared in a single volume in 1756. In 1740, Russell was appointed to the English Factory (trading center) in Aleppo, where he became the chief...

Le livre de l'agriculture d'Ibn-al-Awam (Kitab al-Felahah): كتاب الفلاحة / traduit de l'arabe par J.-J. Clément-Mullet.

Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-ʻAwwām

...First French edition of the lengthy treatise on agronomy written in Seville around AD 1200. It was exclusively in Spain that an agricultural literature in the Arabic language was created and developed, particularly during the 11th and 12th...