Lot 76
Classical Arabic prose & poetry
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A collection of works on classical Arabic prose and poetry, to include: Abu Tammam Al-hamasa. Cairo, 1296 AH. , 4 volumes in 2, 8vo., cloth, rubbed, slight paper discolouration throughout, lower margin of first few pages with worm holes; Al-Jahiz Majmu'at rasa'i. Cairo, [n.d.] 8vo., cloth, with the signature of Alfred Guillaume; Al-Jahiz Al-bayan wa'l-tabyin. Cairo, 1926; Al-Jurjani Kitab al-mawaqif. [Cairo], 1325 AH. 4to., 8 parts in 4 folders, cloth; Ibn el-Kalbi Le livre des idoles (Kitab al-asnam): texte arabe publie pour la premiere fois … par Ahmed Zeki Pacha. Cairo: Imprimerie Nationale, 1914. Small folio, quarter calf, cloth boards; Abu'l Faraj al-Isfahani Kitab al-aghani. Beirut, 1970. 10 volumes, 8vo., publisher's cloth, and 14 others (23)