The Arab conquest of Egypt and the last thirty years of Roman dominion

A$350 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1902. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth (flecked, joints and edges rubbed with a short tear at head of upper joint at spine), Arabic lettering to upper panel, ruled in gilt, endpapers toned, folding map of the Nile delta, pp. xxxiv; 563, three further maps and plans, a very good copy. A detailed history of Egypt from the close of the Roman Empire to the rise of Islam, including conquests by the Persians, the persecution of the Copts, the Rise of Mohammed and the establishment of Muslim rule in Egypt.

• Binding: Hardcover

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