"The Arabic version of Euclid's thirteen books made by the astronomer Nāṡir al-dīn in A.D. 1260"--Thomas-Stanford, p. 17.

Edition with t.p. only in Arabic, a reissue of the work published in the same year with t.p. also in Latin: Euclidis Elementorum geometricorumlibri tredecim. / Extraditione doctissimi Nasiridini Tusini nunc primum Arabicè impressi. Cf. Thomas-Stanford.

The Sultan's privilege is issued in the name of Bādshāh Islām al-Sulṭān ibn al-Sulṭān al-Sulṭān Murād Khān, and dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 996 AH in Constantinople.

Signatures: [1]-[57]⁴ (leaf [57]4 blank). No leaves are signed.

Pages are numbered in numerals of the traditional Arabic font from p. 2 to 453, and also in modern arabic numerals from p. 25 to 453.

Title and text within double line borders; title vignettes.

Rare Book copy 1: Binding: Full vellum binding.

Rare Book copy 1: From the library of The Honble. Frederic North with his bookplate.

Rare Book copy 2: Binding: Full leather armorial leather binding.

Rare Book copy 2: From the library of the duke of Beaufort with his bookplate.

Rare Book copy 2: A.l.s. from Charles S. Peierce to George Arthur Plimpton laid in.

Thomas-Stanford, C. Early editions of Euclid's Elements, 46a

Adams E990

Riccardi, P. Bib. Euclidea, 1594¹, note

BM Arabic books, I, column 515

Roller & Goodman, I, p. 371

BN, v. 48, column 690, no. 69

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 175

NUC pre-1956 NE 0188979

In Arabic; Sultan's privilege in Ottoman Turkish.