Le Koran (Quran)
by KASIMIRSKI, M [Tr.]
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur, 1847. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Important French Translation of the Quran;
Same Edition Owned by Dostoevsky
KASIMIRSKI, M [Tr.]. Le Koran (Quran). Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur, 1847. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 - 539 + 1 blank leaf. Small octavo. Nouvelle Edition.
Albin de Biberstein Kasimirski was French translator and author who studied Eastern and Arabic traditions. Jean-Pierre Pauthier commissioned Kasimirski to translate the Quran as part of a larger initiative to gather the sacred books of Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam. Kasimirskis translation, first published in 1840, built on the earlier translations done by the Italian cleric Louis Maracci and the English scholar George Sale.
CONDITION: Very good to near fine in half-leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Very light wear to edges. Marbled endpapers. Internally, pages are exceptionally clean and bright.
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Same Edition Owned by Dostoevsky
KASIMIRSKI, M [Tr.]. Le Koran (Quran). Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur, 1847. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 - 539 + 1 blank leaf. Small octavo. Nouvelle Edition.
Albin de Biberstein Kasimirski was French translator and author who studied Eastern and Arabic traditions. Jean-Pierre Pauthier commissioned Kasimirski to translate the Quran as part of a larger initiative to gather the sacred books of Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam. Kasimirskis translation, first published in 1840, built on the earlier translations done by the Italian cleric Louis Maracci and the English scholar George Sale.
CONDITION: Very good to near fine in half-leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Very light wear to edges. Marbled endpapers. Internally, pages are exceptionally clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Eternal Return Antiquarian Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 722
- Title
- Le Koran (Quran)
- Author
- KASIMIRSKI, M [Tr.]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Publisher
- Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1847
- Keywords
- Koran, Qur'an, Religion, Sacred texts, Muslim, Islam
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