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L’Alcoran de Mahomet. Paris, chez Antoine de Sommaville 1649 Twelvemo, contemporary vellum, (8) + 686pp + (3), title page printed in red and black with printers woodcut device, some woodcut initials, some printed marginilia, with the rarely found 4 page dedication to Le Chancelier. The second printing of the Qur’an in French, which was first printed in 1647. A counterfeit edition printed by Jansson in Amsterdam. The translation is by Andrew du Ryer who was Resident in Alexandria. British Library, Arabic Books, I,889. Brunet, III,1309. Willems 1087 £850 The Alcoran of Mahomet. London, 1649 FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION Wing K747. SOLD Mahomets Alkoran. Amsterdam, Jan Rieuwertz 1658 Two parts in one volume, twelvemo, contemporary vellum, engraved title frontispiece + (7) + 692pp; (2) + 125pp, a few woodcut initials, printed marginilia. Second printing of Qur’an in Dutch, the first translation into Dutch of du Ryer’s French translation of the Qur’an. The second part contains an account of the Life of the Prophet. Not in the British Library £1,150 L’Alcoran de Mahomet. Paris, chez Anoine de Sommaville, 1672 Twelvemo, contemporary vellum, (6) + 486pp + (2), title printed in red and black with printers woodcut device, some woodcut initials, some printed marginilia, ownership in ink on the title of Robt. St.George. The third printing of the Qur’an in French. The translation is by Andrew du Ryer who was Resident in Alexandria. British Library, Arabic Books, I, £750 The Alcoran of Mahomet. London, Randal Taylor 1688 Octavo, contemporary speckled calf, upper hinge weak but holding, blind ruled fillet, (10) + xviiipp + (12) + (4) + 511pp, title within double ruled border. Reprint of the first English translation of the Qur’an of 1649. It was translated into English from Andrew du Ryer’s French edition of 1647. This edition contains The Translator to the Christian Reader; The French Epistle to the Reader; A Summary of the Religion of the Turks; the Priviledges of Marseilles; and from Sultan Amurat at Constantinople; The Life and Death of Mahomet; Alexander Ross’s A needful Caveat and the whole text of the Qur’an in English. Wing K748. British Library, Arabic Books I,887. £600 Mahomets Alkoran. Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn 1696, 1698 Octavo, contemporary vellum, engraved title frontispiece dated 1696 + (5) + 547pp, woodcut initials and woodcut printers devices at chapter endings, printed marginilia, 6 engraved plates. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE QUR’AN , third printing of the Qur’an in Dutch. The Life of the Prophet , van Mahomets Leeven, is on pp.461-506. British Library, Arabic Books I,p.867. SOLD |
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