Shelfmark
Fs.1.18(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʼib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʼib al-asfār. English.]
Title
The travels of Ibn Batūta; translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge. : With notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work. / By the Rev. Samuel Lee, B.D. ....
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, and sold by J. Murray, Albemarle Street; Parbury, Allen, & Co., Leadenhall Street; and Howell & Stewart, Holborn., 1829..
Physical description
xviii, [2], 243, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Series statement
(Oriental Translation Fund ; [1])
Note
"London: printed by J.L. Cox, Great Queen Street ..." - verso of title-leaf etc.
Note
"Additions and corrections" on p. [xix].
Note
With a half-title leaf.
Note
Some copies were issued to subscribers with an extra, presentation leaf headed "Royal Asiatic Society's House, Grafton Street, London, April 27, 1829. Sir ..." and signed by William Huttmann, with the name of the recipient added in manuscript. Such copies also have, as a supplement, a separate "Report ... of the first General Meeting" of the Oriental Translation Fund (1829).
Provenance
Inscribed in unidentified contemporary hand on half-title: "For the library of Eton College".
Binding
Contemporary grey paper boards; cream paper spine; ms. spine title; untrimmed edges.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy bound with the "Report ... of the first General Meeting" of the Oriental Translation Fund (1829) but lacking the presentation leaf.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fn.2.22.
Subject
Subject
Subject
Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377 Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʼib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʼib al-asfār.
Subject
Asia Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Subject
Africa Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Murray, John, 1778 - 1843 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Cox, J. L. (John Lewis) (John Lewis), printer.
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Lee, Samuel, 1625 - 1691 translator.
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Howell & Stewart bookseller.
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Parbury, Allen, and Co. bookseller.
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Oriental Translation Fund publisher.
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Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng ara
Identifier
B43771