Biographical Dictionary - COMPLETE SET - [VERY RARE]

KHALLIKAN, IBN - [SLANE, William McGuckin de - Translator fron tha Arabic]

Published by Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, Paris, 1843

About this Item

Four volumes published in 1843, 1843, 1868 and 1871, respectively. - Quarto (28.5x23 cm). - [[4], XL, 688; XVI, 697; [4], 689; XVIV, 616 pages. - In uniform 3/4 morocco, spines with 5 bands and title in gilt. - Volumes I and IV: corners and edges quite worn, else very good to fine; Volume III: covers and spine detached, else fine; Volume IV; covers detached, about 2/3 of detached spine present. - Interiors of Volumes I and IV are good.; Volume II: water spots on last 100-or-so pages; Volume III: lower left corner (9.5x9.5 cm) of front free end-paper is gone, last leaf with some folds and tears, bit no loss of text. - With colorful bookplate of the now defunct"Samuel Ives Curtiss Library - Old Testament Theology", followedby that of the Chicago Theological Seminary, with release stamp. - This monumental bibliography of IBN KHALLIKAN (1211-1282) was called by the British scholar Reynold A. Nicholson "the best general biography ever written" - It was translated by the Irish orientalist William McGuckin, who later became a French national and was named Baron de Slane. - Very rare: WorldCat gives only 4 locations ( all of them in the Netherlands: den Haag, Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biographical Dictionary - COMPLETE SET - [VERY RARE]
• Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, Paris
• Publication Date: 1843
• Language: Arabic
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: not applicable