Qurʼan. French.

L'Alcoran de Mahomet / traduit d'arabe en françois, par le sieur Du Ryer, sieur de la Garde Malezair.

A La Haye : Chez Adrian Moetjens, marchand libraire prez la Cour, à la Librairie françoise, MDCLXXXIII [1683]

12 unnumbered pages, 486 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations (engraving) ; 14 cm (twelvemo)

Signatures: *⁶ A-V¹² X⁶ (last leaf blank).
Printer's device on t.p., initials.
Sideglosses.
First page *1a is a full-page engraving or etching with title "L'Alcoran" on book held by a seated Muslim figure (Muhammad?); signed by (Dionysius?) Padtbrugge. T.p. is *2a.
Line-for-line reprint of the 1672 ed. by Elzevier, whose mark, an armillary sphere, appears on t.p.

Binding: contemporary vellum boards, with ribbon (detached).

Binark & Eren. World bib., 665.
BM Arabic I, col. 889.
Chauvin, V.C. Bib. des ouvrages arabes, vol. X, p. 128.
Willems, A. Elzevier, 1472.

Provenance: Ad usum cleri sac. [?] bib. ad [...?] (inscription); another deleted inscription; Robert J. Hayhurst (bookplate); Curtis Runnels from Jeffrey Mancevice [a book dealer], Worcester, Massachusetts. 9. April 1998 (pencil inscription on back flyleaf).

RARE

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