The Qur'an, Qur'anic commentary, Religious Science & Philosophy, etc.
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A collection of editions and translations of the Qur'an, Qur'anic commentary and religious science, to include: The Koran … enriched with numerous explanatory notes; various readings from Savary's version and a valuable preliminary discourse on the religious and political conditions of the Arabs before the days of Mohammed by George Sale. London: Tegg, [n.d., 1850?]. 8vo., folding frontispiece, 3 genealogical tables (2 folding), folding map, publisher's blind stamped cloth, rubbed and worn, inner joints broken, edges of plates dusty; Wherry, E.M, the Revd. A comprehensive commentary on the Quran: comprising Sale's translation and preliminary discourse with additional notes and discourse … Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882-86. 4 volumes, 8vo., publisher's cloth, edges rubbed; The Qur'an; translated with a critical re-arrangement of the Surahs, by Richard Bell. 2 volumes, 8vo., Edinburgh: Clark, 1939, publisher's cloth, spines repaired with tape; Bell, Richard Introduction to the Qur'an. Edinburgh, University Press, 1953. 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers; Paret, Rudi Der Koran: Kommentar und Konkordanz. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1971. 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrapper; Al-Shahrastani The summa philosophiae … Kitab nihayatu 'l-iqdam fi 'ilmi 'l-kalam; edited with a translation … by Alfred Guillaume. London: OUP, 1934. 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrapper; Averroes On the harmony of religion and philosophy … by George F. Hourani. (E.J.W. Gibb memorial series. New seies, XXI). London, Lezac & Co., 1961; Aviccena Lexique de la langue philosophie d'ibn Sina. 4to., Paris: Desclee de Brower, 1938 and 41 others (52)