[NEW TESTAMENT IN ARABIC]. - An Extract of Several Letters Relating to the Great Charity and Usefulness of Printing the New Testament and Psalter in the Arabick Language; for the Benefit of the Poor Christians in Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt, and Other Eastern
Countries. London, Printed by J. Downing, in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield, 1725. Pp. 31. Later half calf, rubbed and hinges cracked, upper part of front hinge split. Contains extract of letters from a.o. Mr. Salomon Negri, native of Damascus and editor of the Psalter published in 1725 and the New Testament in 1727; Reverend Mr. William Ayerst, Chaplain to his Excellency Sir Robert Surron, late Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte; Reverend Dr. Samuel Lisle, Fellow of Wadham College in Oxford; Reverend Mr. Gennadius, Abbot and superior of the Convent of Greeks at Alexandria in Egypt.
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