Author: Marin, M.
Title: Histoire de Saladin, sulthan d'Egypte et de Syrie. With 3 fold. engr. maps/plans, 2 of Ptolemais/Akre and 1 of Jerusalem.
Description: La Haye, Nicolas van Daalen, 1758. Small 8vo (4), xx, 355; (4), 440, (22) pp. Two vol. Contemp. hafcalf binding, slightly shaved.Spine gilt and w. red and yellow shields. Sprinkled edges (top edge browned). l Titlepage printed in black and red and with attractive publiher's device. With a list of publisher's books (22 pages). Saladin, was a Muslim general of Kurdish descent. His most famous act is the recapture of Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Saladin was born into a Kurdish family and is the founder of the Islamic Ayyubid dynasty, which ruled parts of Egypt, Syria and Iraq. First Dutch edition.

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