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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company. Fair. 1874. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Engraved plates, folding; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 670 pages; 1874 J. B. Lippincott & Company. 6th edition of the Sale translation. HC in original cloth. I will call this a binding copy. In other words the best approach is to have the book rebound. Cloth ta spine almost entirely lost to bio predation or silverfish damage. Original coated brown endpapers are present and the text block remains generally sound. Several folding engraved plates are complete, though with a partial tear to the fold of the Map of Arabia and light silverfis predation to other plates at edges where they extruded from the front edge. A few scattered instances of finger soiling to pages. Cloth sides worn and with some outline of damp stains. A pretty solid candidate for rebinding. Fair only with all faults .

London: Frederick Warne and Co v-xv, 470pp, dark green boards with title in gilt to spine. "Translated into English from the original Arabic, with explanatory notes taken from the most approved commentators." Toned throughout and some marks to eps, plus water marks to rear eps. Shelfworn, corners bumped and rubbed, slight foxing in places.. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Philadelphia: J. W. Moore. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. Hardcover. Contemporary cloth, gilt-titled spine. Spine half-perished, held with wide tape, board edges exposed. Contents tanned with scattered foxing. 670 pp plus 5 plates at rear, one with a loss, others with few closed tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: For the Koran Society by R. Carlile, 1826 . Leather. Good. 9" by 6". None. A very scarce English language translation of the Quran, issued by political agitator and suffragist Richard Carlile. A very scarce edition of George Sale's English language translation of the religious text. Sale first published his translation in 1734.This edition of Sale's translation is one of a small number of very scarce editions published by Richard Carlile, an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press, known for witnessing the Peterloo Massacre, and being persecuted for publishing an account of it.Lacking one blank to the front, one blank to rear, and lacking the final leaf of text (pages 315-316). Lacking also the front free endpaper and rear free endpaper. With the bookplate of Bernard E. James to the front pastedown.With a number of marginal contemporary ink annotations and notations throughout. For example, an 1826 inscription to page 79 notes that the… Read More