Name: Auction: Firuzabadi, Muhammad bin Ya'qub al- (1326-1414 CE) Al-Qamus al-Muhit ['The Expansive Ocean']
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 214 GBP
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Head of Sale, Cathy Tait, is delighted to present our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2025, which took place on Wednesday 05 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Manuscript and archive material lead the way in the sale, with a signed letter by Mary I of England (Mary Tudor), a fascinating English Civil War medical text and an account of a voyage undertaken by the East India Company ship the “Swift”, a journey instrumental in the treatment and prevention of scurvy.Further highlights of the sale include an intriguing collection of detective and adventure novels from the golden age of mystery fiction, a near-complete collection of the output of the T.N. Foulis Press and an extremely rare 1915 copy of the Persian Gulf Pilot.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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Cairo: Matba'at al-Maymaniyah, Ramadan, 1319 AH [1901/2 CE]. 4 volumes, 4to, 410, 415, 416, 420 pp., contemporary quarter sheep, spines titled and numbered in gilt, black pebble-grain cloth sides, printed with Arabic types (not lithographed), contemporary gift inscription to the title-page of volume 1 possibly from the editor, skinning to leather of spines, light browning to textblocks

Al-Qamus al-Muhit ['The Expansive Ocean']

Firuzabadi, Muhammad bin Ya'qub al- (1326-1414 CE)

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Firuzabadi, Muhammad bin Ya'qub al- (1326-1414 CE)

Al-Qamus al-Muhit ['The Expansive Ocean']

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