- 3297
[Sulaiman, the merchant]--[Hasan ibn Yazid, Abu Zaid, al-Sirafi]
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700 - 900 GBP
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Description
- Ancient accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers... translated from the Arabic by Eusebius Renaudot. London: for Samuel Harding, 1733
2 parts in one volume, 8vo (200 x 121mm.), xxxvii, [1], 99, [1 (blank)]; 260, [12]pp., title-page printed in red and black, illustration: woodcut vignette on title-page, binding: contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, binding slightly rubbed
Literature
Lust 299; Cordier, Sinica 1923
Catalogue Note
first edition in english. According to the famous French scholar Renaudot, there is no reason to doubt that the journeys were undertaken four centuries before Marco Polo, for the two Arabic authors mention the great revolution which swept over China during their second voyage. Their respective travels took place in 851a.d. and 877a.d. Later Arabic geographers like Ibn Khordadhbe and al-Mas'udi relied heavily on this work for their information on India and China.