Lot 183
  • 183

RELAND, DE RELIGIONE MOHAMMEDICA, UTRECHT, 1717, CONTEMPORARY VELLUM

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • De religione mohammedica libri duo. Editio altera auctior. Utrecht: Willem Broedelet, 1717
8vo (152 x 95mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, additional engraved title-page, title printed in red and black with engraved device, parallel text in Arabic and Latin, 4 folding engraved plates, engraved illustration, woodcut initials and headpiece, contemporary vellum, occasional light foxing, one plate torn without loss, binding slightly soiled

Provenance

Henry Liddell of Culross Abbey (who worked for the Bombay Civil Service, died 1873), his Bibliotheca Liddelliana stamp on flyleaf; his sale, Edinburgh, 1874

Literature

STCN 185644198

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

First published in 1705.