arabic poetry printed in Calcutta
ABU TAMMAM. AHMAD, Mawlawi Kabir Ud Din (editor).
Kitab al-Hammasah, a Selection of Arabic Poems by Abu Tammam Habib Ibn Aws Al-Tayi, prescribed for the Decree of Honor Examination of Three Old and Accurate MSS.
Calcutta, Urdoo Guide Press, 1856.
First Edition; bound in 2 vols., printed in Arabic with a title-page in Arabic to vol. I and another in English at the beginning of the vol. II (dated '1880'), 8vo (237 x 158 mm); continuous pagination throughout the two volumes, interfoliated throughout with blank leaves probably for the purpose of note-taking, early ownership inscription in Arabic to endpapers, pencil inscriptions to blanks throughout citing Lyall's English translation of the text (see 'Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry, chiefly pre-Islamic, with an Introduction and Notes'); late 19th-century green cloth bound by Kelly & Walsh Ltd. (Singapore), spines lettered in gilt, yellow-coated endpapers, edges sprinkled in red, extremities rubbed, corners a little worn.
Stock code 119910
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Kitab al-Hammasah,
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A lithographed and extensively illustrated edition of the Ajaib al Makhluqat by Zakariyah Qazvini printed in Tehran in 1866.
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Réglement du Payeur Général sur les Fabriques d'eau - de - vie.
c. 1800.
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[BIBLE].
[Kitab'i Mukaddes].
1827.
Edition Princeps f the Bible in Osmanli printed in Paris in 1827.
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