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SULAYMAN AL-TAJIR; and ABU ZAYD HASAN IBN YAZID. Anciennes Relations des Indes et de la Chine, de Deux Voyageurs Mahometans. French translation and commentary by Eusèbe Renaudot. 397, [17] pages. 8vo, 181x119 mm, later 1/2 sheep, spine imperfect, front cover and title detached; scattered marginal foxing, dark stain in lower margins in middle of volume, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf, repair in blank lower margin of ã5, front free endpaper lacking. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1718
first edition of narratives of 9th-century journeys to Asia by 2 Muslim travellers. The first, on the experiences of the merchant Sulayman, "is the first Arabic account of China and of many of the coastlands of the Indian Ocean" (Sarton). The Arabic original text was first published in 1845. Lust 298; Sarton I, 571-72.
