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Wien, 1850-56 100 AL HARIRI of Basra, Makamat: or, rhetorical anecdotes translated from the original Arabic by Th. Preston, roy. 8vo. cloth 1850 101 HARIRI, The Assemblies of, Student's Edition of the Arabic Text with English notes, grammatical, critical and historical, 8vo. pp. xxviii and 472, cloth 1897 102 HARIRII Bazrensis Karrationum, consessum nomine celebratarum decas, latine, Peiper, 4to. hf. calf Cervinontii, 1831 103 HARĪRI, al Makāmāt (the Fifty Stations or Assemblies, in Arabic), sm. 4to. beautifully written MS. with all the vowel-points; Oriental leather binding About 1790-1800 104 HARTMANN, Commentatio de Geographia Africae Edrisiana, Gött. s. a.Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires publié par la Société de Géographie Tome II: Jaubert, Relation de Ghanat, etc.-in 1 vol. 4to. plates, diagrams, and maps, cloth Paris, 1825 105 HUZAILI ANTHOLOGY. Poems of the Huzailis, edited, in Arabic, by J. G. L. Kosegarten. Vol. I, all published, 4to. half calf gilt; very O. T. F., 1854 1854 106 108 scarce another copy, wanting sheet 17, 4to. cloth 107 IBN ABI OS-AIBA, Abdollatiphi Bagdadensis Vita, Arabice et Latine, ed. T. Mousley, 4to. cloth Oxonii, 1808 Fákihat ul Khulafá wa Mufákahatu 1-Zurafá: Fructus Imperatorum et Jocatio Ingeniosorum, Arabice, ed. FREYTAG, 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Arabic text and critical notes, hf. bd. Bonnae, 1832-52 109 IBN EL ATHIRI Chronicon quod Perfectissimum (KAMIL) inscribitur, Arabice, cum Supplemento, Indicibus, etc. ed. C. J. Tornberg, 14 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco Upsal. et Lugd. Bat. 1867-76 110 IBNU L ATHĪR, Tārikhu 1 Kamil (the Perfect History), in Arabic, 12 vols. 4to. hf. bd. Bulak, A. H. 1290 (1872) On the margins are printed in succession the Akhbāru d Dawwal of Abū l'Abbas Ahmad Dimashki; the Raudatu 1 Munāzir of Ibnu sh Shihna; and 'Utbi's Tārīkhu 1 Yamini. So that this is really a corpus of old histories. 111 IBN BATUTA'S Travels, from the Arabic, by LEE, 1829-HATIM TAI, the Adventures of, a Romance, translated from the Persian, by Duncan Forbes, 2 vols. in 1, 4to. O. T. F., 1829-30 2 0 Arabic Language and Literature, continued :- 112 IBN BATUTA. Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah, text arabe, accompagné d'une traduction par Defrémery et Sanguinetti, 4 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco Paris, 1874 113 IBN COTEIBA's Handbuch der Geschichte herausg. von F. Wüstenfeld, 114 IBN DOREIDI, Poëmation, cum scholiis Arab. excerptio Chaluwiae et 116 Gött., 1858 Ishak, aus dem Stuttgart, 1864 En Franquerae, 1773 115 IBN ISHAK, Das Leben Muhammed's, bearbeitet von Abd el-Malik Ibn Hischam herausg. von F. Wüstenfeld, in Arabic, 2 vols. in 3, 8vo. hf. bd. scarce Das Leben Mohammeds, bearbeitet von Ibn Arabischen übersetzt von G. Weil, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. bd. 117 IBN KHALLIKAN. Ibn Challikani Vita illustrium Visorum edidit Ferd. 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About 1050. 19 leaves. 172 ‘UYŪNU L AKHBAR wa Nuzhatu 1 Absār (General History by Muhammad al Misri al Bakri, in Arabic), 8vo. MS. in black and red, wanting the beginning; old Turkish binding 050 2 16 0 1 16 0 A.H. 1068 1 5 0 173 UL UJUB OOL OJAB, the art of letter writing, in Arabic, 8vo. hf. calf Arabic Language and Literature, continued : 174 VANDYKE (Edward) Kitāb Iktifā-u l-Kanū' bi-ma huwa matbu' min ajli Cairo, 1897 Including the works published in France, Holland, and Germany, as well as those printed in the East. 176 Armenian. 076 175 Aramaic. Cook (S. A.) A Glossary of the Aramaic Inscriptions, 8vo. cloth 1898 Aramaic, one of the great branches of the Semitic family of languages, was the lingua franca of Western Asia. Used in Babylonia and Assyria as early as the tenth century, B.C. GOSPEL LESSONS OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH, in Armenian. 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The Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about B.C. 2000, to which are added a series of letters of other Kings of the first Dynasty of Babylon, the original Babylonian texts, edited from tablets in the British Museum, with English translations, summaries of contents, etc., 8vo. plates, cloth 179 1898 Assistant in the Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, FIRST STEPS IN ASSYRIAN, a Book for Beginners, being a series of historical, mythological, religious, magical, epistolary, and other texts, printed in Cuneiform Characters with interlinear transliteration and translation, and a sketch of Assyrian Grammar, sign-list, and vocabulary, 8vo. cloth 1898 The aim of the present work is to furnish the beginner with all the materials which he will require in his earliest studies of the Assyrian language and the cuneiform inscriptions. 180 LAYARD (A. H.) the Monuments of Nineveh, from Drawings made on the spot, both series, impl. folio, 171 plates in outline, some coloured and tinted, with descriptive letterpress, in 2 portfolios (pub. at £21.) 1853 Australia: 181 QUIROS (Pedro Fernandez de) COPIE DE LA REQVESTE presentee av Roy d'Espagne par le Capitaine Pierre Ferdinand de Quir, sur la descouuerte de la cinquiesme Partie du monde, appellee la terre Australle, incogneue, & des grandes richesses & fertilité d'icelle. PARIS M.DC.XVII. Small 8vo. (12mo.) eight leaves; vellum A 1 1 0 0 15 O 6 10 0 1617 15 0 0 The first book in French on the subject of Australia. It was no doubt reprinted from the excessively rare original Memorial printed in Spain about six years previously, but carefully suppressed by authority. |