De Vita et Rebus Gestis Mohammedis.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $300

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author

ABU’L-FEDA, ISMAEL

printer

Sheldonian Theatre

Place

Oxford

Publication

1723

Description

First Edition. Printer’s device on title. Latin and Arabic in parallel columns. Edited and translated by Joannes Gagnier.

summary

An important work for the study of 18th-century Orientalism. The author of this life of the Prophet Mohammed, Ismael Abu'l-Feda (1273-1331), from whose "Annals" this study is derived, was a Kurdish historian, geographer and local governor of Hama, Syria.

Browned. Recent vellum-backed boards, rubbed. Folio.

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