The astrolabes of the world
Subtitle: based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir. J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection and inother public and private collections
By: by Robert T. Gunther, M. A., Hon. LL.D., curator of the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
Contributors: Morley, William H 1815-1860.
Publisher: Printed at the University Press
Published: 1932
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Subjects: Ashmolean Museum.; Astrolabes.; Astrolabes -- Bibliography.
Notes: 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, hithertoundescribed.  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.