Simon Ockley - Histoire des Sarrasins - 2 volumes -
Simon Ockley - Histoire des Sarrasins, contenant leurs premieres conquetes, & ce qu'ils ont fait de plus remarquable sous les onze premiers khalifes ou successeurs de Mahomet - 2 vols. - Paris, Nyon, ), cviii, ) / xxxvi, )pp. - Half-leather binding with cloth boards and four raised bands and gilt print - approx. cmCondition:Beautiful publication. A bit tight, yet very professionally bound. Half a page with text in old handwriting stuck in front of volume 1. Previous ownerâs name written on both title pages. Some pages in volume two slightly spotted.¶ Giving an account of the most remarkable battles, sieges and particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria and Jerusalem. Illustrating the religion, rites, customs and manner of living of that warlike people. Collected from the most authentic Arabic authors.Simon Ockley was known in his day as the best skilled of any man in England at the Arabic language. Here he provides for the first time a history of the early Saracen conquests attractive to the general reader. His work became a minor classic and was much used by Gibbon. Its success ensured the author's appointment to the chair of Arabic at Cambridge. Read More