Lot 1103
1103
KORAN -- L'ALCORAN de Mahomet, transl. d'Arabe en François, par le Sieur du Ryer. Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, chez Antoine de Sommaville. (Amst., L. Elzevier, 1649). (16), 686, (6) pp. W. ti. printed in red and black w, sphere device. 12°. Old h. goatskin. (Spine a bit dam., new label, a few tiny wormholes, faintly stained in places).
First Elzevier edition of the most important 17th-c. Koran translation, being the very first translation into a vernacular made directly from the Arabic. This is the first issue with the two dedication leaves to Seguier which were suppressed in later copies. - Willems, 1087; Brunet III, 1309.€ 400
result € 320
Back