£300
Bible, Arabic Printing of Apocrypha. Wallin (Georg the Younger, translator and editor), Qissat Yusuf 'al-Najjar. Sive Historia Josephi Fabri lignarii. Liber apocryphus ex codice manuscripto Regiae Bibliothecae Parisiensis nunc primum Arabice editus, nec non versione Latina et notis illustratus, first edition thus, Lipsiæ [i.e. Leipzig]: Andreæ Zeidleri [Andreas Zeidler], 1722, Arabic printing, Latin translation and commentary, black-ruled title-page, complete, pp: [xvi], 110, [2], some toning and the odd foxed spot, otherwise a good, crisp copy, late 19th/20th c institutional morocco over cloth, gilt, top-edge gilt, others speckled, marbled endpapers, 4to, [Schnurrer 413; Zenker BO ii, 1240]
Provenance: 1) C. Rudo***, faded/washed contemporary owner's MS inscription at foot of title-page. 2) The British Museum, their later transferred 1881 duplicate stamps. 3) The Guildhall Library, presentation bookplate from the BM to them, further GL stamps. 4) City of Liverpool Public Libraries, their bookplate.
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