Histoire des Arabes sous le gouvernement des Califes.
Paris, Estienne & fils; Desaint & Saillant; Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1750.
4 vols. 8vo. (4), LIV, (8), 460 pp. (4), 535, (1) pp., final blank. (4), 504, (20) pp. (4), 479, (5) pp. Contemporary French mottled calf with gilt spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers.
€ 1.500,00
First edition of this history of Arabia, at its time a standard work of reference, covering the years 629 through 1288 AD. German and English translations followed within a few years of publication (the German version was prepared by none other than the great playwright of Enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing).
Rubbed and bumped at extremeties; occasional light browning and insignificant wrinkling to a few pages. A good copy.
Literatur
Gay 3586. Macro 1538 ("1758" in error). Brunet VI, 28011. Graesse IV, 399. Jöcher/Adelung IV, 724.