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The lives and memorable actions of many illustrious persons of the Eastern nations, such as khalifas, sultans, wazirs, or prime-ministers, generals, philosophers, poets, &c. who have distinguish'd themselves, either by war, learning, humanity, justice, &c. : Extracted from the most authentick Oriental chronologers and historians. Never before Englished.

Title
The lives and memorable actions of many illustrious persons of the Eastern nations, such as khalifas, sultans, wazirs, or prime-ministers, generals, philosophers, poets, &c. who have distinguish'd themselves, either by war, learning, humanity, justice, &c. : Extracted from the most authentick Oriental chronologers and historians. Never before Englished.
Publication
London : Printed for J. Wilcox, at Virgil's Head, opposite the New Church in the Strand, M.DCC.XXXIV. [1739]

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Additional Authors
  • Morgan, J., active 1739.
  • Sale, George, 1697?-1736.
Description
[8], 300 pages; 12mo.
Subject
Note
  • Another issue lacks the advertisement leaf but has a dedication, signed: J. Morgan, which states that though 'The bookseller who purchased these loose papers [presumably Wilcox], fancies he has good grounds to believe they appertained to the late ingenious Mr. George Sale, . yet not a syllable of this was his writing'.
  • Morgan claims responsibility for 'in all about a fourth of the whole'.
  • This issue lacks a dedication and has an initial advertisement leaf which states that 'These short memorials . was [sic] design'd, and begun to be translated into English, by the late ingenious Mr. George Sale'.
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  • Restricted access;
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  • ESTC
Call Number
Berg Coll Sale L58 1739
OCLC
316764482
Title
The lives and memorable actions of many illustrious persons of the Eastern nations, such as khalifas, sultans, wazirs, or prime-ministers, generals, philosophers, poets, &c. who have distinguish'd themselves, either by war, learning, humanity, justice, &c. : Extracted from the most authentick Oriental chronologers and historians. Never before Englished.
Imprint
London : Printed for J. Wilcox, at Virgil's Head, opposite the New Church in the Strand, M.DCC.XXXIV. [1739]
Indexed In:
ESTC T147003
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Added Author
Morgan, J., active 1739.
Sale, George, 1697?-1736.
Research Call Number
Berg Coll Sale L58 1739
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