Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(QUR'AN.) The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse. By George Sale. Folding engraved map of Arabia; 3 engraved genealogical tables; folding plate showing plan and view of the Kaaba at Mecca. [6], iii-ix, [3], 187, [1]; 508, [15] pages. 4to, 237x183 mm, contemporary mottled calf, fore edge of covers worn through, rebacked, endpapers renewed; text toned with occasional marginal foxing, engraved matter clean. Early signature of John Willett on title; bookplate of William H. Bergstrom. London: C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734

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first edition of Sale's translation, the first scholarly version in English made directly from the original Arabic.