Author: RYER, ANDRÉ DU (Transl.):
Title: L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Traduit de l'arabe. Nouvelle edition revüe & corrigé. Two volumes in one. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1734.
Description: . Pp. xviii, 282, ii, 288. With two frontispieces, title printed in red and black. Copy with wide margins. Old signature on the base of the title (Ettion). Contemporary quarter calf on marbled paper boards, flat spine stamped in gilt, lightly rubbed, top of spine with small nick. Some minor staining. André du Ryer, a noted orientalist who served in the consulate in Alexandria in the 1620s and later as an interpreter to the French ambassador in Istanbul. He made this well-known translation of the Qur'an which was first published in 1647. A handsome copy. Cf Zenker BO i, 1390 (no this ed.).

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