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Thomas Henshaw's copy.- Ryer (André du) L'Alcoran
Thomas Henshaw's copy.- Ryer (André du) L'Alcoran
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Thomas Henshaw's copy.- Ryer (André du, translator) L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Translaté d'Arabe en François, first edition in French, title with woodcut royal arms, errata f., occasional pencil underlining and passage marking, T4 torn at head with loss of text, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked (burgundy morocco spine label loosely inserted), lower edges little worn, rubbed, small 4to, Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, 1647.

⁂ Rare first French edition of the Koran, translated by the celebrated French orientalist Du Ryer.

Provenance: 'Henshaw' and 'Achete a Paris, pour 6 francs, Le 19 de Septem:, 1647' (ink signature and inscription to front free endpaper). We know that from late 1644 Henshaw was a travelling companion of John Evelyn on the Continent, and that he came back to England from Paris in 1650, or possibly earlier.
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Thomas Henshaw's copy.- Ryer (André du) L'Alcoran

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