[Rarebooks] FS: Richardson's Persian, Arabic and English Dictionary (revised by Wilkins). London: 1806-1810. 2 vols.

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(DICTIONARIES) Richardson, John. A DICTIONARY, PERSIAN, ARABIC, AND ENGLISH; With a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature and Manners of Eastern Nations. A New Edition, with Numerous Additions and Improvements by Charles Wilkins. London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co, for W. J. and J. Richardson, et al. 1806-1810. 2 volumes. Lg. 4to. xcvi,1157,(1);(4),xxiv,853,(3)pp. Double column text. With the leaf of ads at the back of Volume II (a tape repair to a blank portion of the leaf), and the half-title in Volume II (no half-title required in Volume I). Cont. calf boards, quite rubbed & worn, calf chipped along the edges and some corners. Both volumes nicely rebacked with red morocco spine labels. A number of old rubber stamps of the Mercantile Library New York, who sold off their books in the 1970s. Each volume with an old inscription of a preliminary blank (circa 1900) from one Joseph Wolff to his friend J. King. Very scarce.                            $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The greatly revised "New Edition" with extensive revisions by the great orientalist Charles Wilkins (Richardson died in 1795). The work was originally printed in 2 folio volumes in 1777-1780 in Oxford.
Richardson also wrote A SPECIMEN OF PERSIAN POETRY (1774), and both an Arabic Grammar (1776) and a Persian Grammar (1771). The first volume is Arabic and Persian words translated to English, and the second volume  English words translated to Arabic and Persian.

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