THIS VOLUME ONLY - Band I. Volume 1 of the 13-volume work `Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums` (published from 1967 to 2000), the cornerstone reference on the history of science and technology in the Islamic world by the eminent orientalist Fuat Sezgin (b.1924), professor emeritus of the History of Natural Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and the founder and honorary director of the Institute of the History of the Arab Islamic Sciences there. 245x170mm. XIII+935 pages. Red gilt Hardcover. Gilt front cover and spine. Text block edges age-stained/slightly stained. Cover upper corners and spine upper edge slightly bumped. Whitepages age-stained. Pages slightly yellowing. This rare book is otherwise in very good condition.