He clearly liked big books! The owner of the books is the man sitting at the scholarly working desk: a Jewish astronomer. And the young man entering on the left is supposed to be Muhammad (the later founder of Islam), by the way. The image is part of a Christian account of the 1660s on Arabia. 1/2
And here is the page in full glory, as part of the German book "Türckische, Tartarische, Persianische, Griechische und Venetianische Chronica..." (1665), access: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b... 2/2