A new edition of Sale’s Quran. Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper covered boards, lettered and decorated gilt to the spine.  To the first volume is a double frontispiece with a view and a plan of Mecca. There is also a folding map of Arabia to the first volume. To the second volume is a folding genealogical table as frontispiece, one further folding genealogical table, and a single page genealogical engraving.
 
A very good copy, a little rubbed.
 
A new edition of Sale’s Quran. This is the first to print R. A. Davenport’s memoir of Sale and the “various readings and illustrative notes” drawn from Savary’s French version (Le Coran, 1783).