Kitab siyahat al-Masihi. Ay, al-sāyir min hādhā al-ʻālam al-fānī ilá al-ʻālam al-bāqī

by Pilgrim’s Progress. Arabic, John Bunyan

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First edition

First edition in Arabic. Title vignette of Bunyan in prison, 7 plates captioned in Arabic. 6 , 281, 1, imprint , 2, blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo in 6s. Original silky cloth over boards, twentieth-century binder’s cloth spine. Joints crudely rehinged, title leaf reinforced at gutter; binding cracked and a few leaves loosened. Contemporary presentation inscription on pastedown. Very good, internally fine. Roper, Arabic printing in Malta, 1825-1845, 56. OCLC:

• Binding: Hardcover

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