[Rarebooks] FS: 1867 American Edition of Translation of the Koran by George Sale

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"The Koran; commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into 
English immediately from the original Arabic; to which is prefaced The 
Life of Mohammed or, the History of that Great Doctrine”

By George Sale.
Published in Boston by T.O.H.P. Burnham in 1867.

A nice mid-19th century edition of Sale’s famous translation of the 
Koran. George Sale [1697-1736] was a lawyer and Orientalist, who had a 
wide knowledge of languages and or Arabic customs and literature, though 
the claim that he spent 25 years in Arabia has been disputed, and seems 
a bit doubtful. He first published this translation of the Koran in 
1734, and the work drew wide praise from scholars and others, including 
Voltaire. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States 
Congress, “was sworn in using a 1764 edition of Sale's Qur'an, sold to 
the Library of Congress in 1815 by Thomas Jefferson”. Sale’s collection 
of rare Persian, Turkish, and Arabic manuscripts now resides in the 
Bodleian Library.

Hardcover. 5”x8”, 472 pages. Publisher’s black cloth with an impressed 
emblem on the cover and gilt spine titles. Spine faded, light cover 
wear, minor scattered soil, period pencil note on the title page, 
“Mohammedan Bible”. [430/43037]  $85

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