Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
April 1886
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/41
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    32843 Harirt. Maxkamar; or Rhetorical Anecdotes of Abu’l Kasem al Hariri, of Basra, translated into English Verse and Prose; and illustrated with Annotations, by the Rev. T. Preston, 8vo. cloth, 20s 1850 “'The most classical work in Arabic literature—a masterpiece of elegance and refinement.” This translation, by the freedom of its rendering and the easiness of its style, will be more acceptable to an European reader “than any literal version ; while the frequent notes recall to the more studious reader the subtler points of the text as verbally followed. Mr. Preston has been careful not to fall into the error of Rickert, who made an imitation rather than a translation, 32844 The Assemblies of Al Hariri, translated from the Arabic, with introduction and notes, by CuEnnry, Vol. I, 8vo. (all pub. ; sells 18s), cloth, 9s 1867 Contains the first twenty-six Assemblies, 32845 -— Narrationes, Consessuum nomine celebrate, Latine, edidit C. R. S. Peiper, 3 parts in | vol. 4to. hf. calf, 5s Cervimontii (Hirschberg), 1832 Sect Set 173 | coslelas| me dy macll culli,)| : Commentary on the Makamat, by Khair d-din bin Taju d-din al-Bas [Yasir], in Arabic, sm. 4to. plainly written MS. containing the Makamat 1-xv, hf. bd. 21s Sec. XVIII eee oly) os Lele! yd: Durrat-ul-Ghawwas, a treatise on solecisms in prercnl in Arabic, sm. 4to. plain MS. in old Turkish binding, from De Sacy’s library, 15s — A.H. 1024 32848 Hasuy (Rizkallah) (1 SUG aedis cyl, in) el etl: Poem of Poems: Job, Canticles, etc. in Arabic verse, by R Hassoun, 4to. teat lithographed, bound, 4 gilt edges, 7s Privately printed, 1869 32847 32849 _ Ab Save colts ’ sles 5 clad! Anthology of verses and tales oral and selected, i <dArabic, 16mo. neatly written MS. hound, 9s Rizk-allah Hasin, Sec. X1x . 39850 HAtim av-Tat alll pile wha Poems, in Arabic, edited by Rizkallah Hess 8vo. sd. bs London, 1872 82851 HIDAYA. | das!| de yall ula epill (ob dylaa: the great Law Book of the most Santas rien “Si Tea and especially of authority in Mohammedan India, i Voto 4, vols. smallest folio, neatly written MS. in old calf, £6. India, about 1770 32852 the same, with its Commentary, the Kirayan, in Arabic, published by Hukeem Moulvee Abdool Mujeed, 4 vols. 4to. sd. £5. Calcutta, 1831-34 32853 ——-——— the same, Vols. III and LV, 4to. sd. £2. 1831-33 32804 The Guide ; a Commentary on the Mussulman Laws: translated by Ch. Hamilton, 4 vols. 4to. bds. £6. 1791 32855 —— the same, 4 vols. 4to. hf. calf gilt, £6. 10s 1791 The great Law-Book of India, and one of the most important monuments of Musulman legislation in existence.