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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, [electronic resource] : 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.XXXIX. [1739]

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Additional Authors
  • Sale, George, 1697?-1736.
  • Morgan, J., active 1739.
Description
[8],300p.; 12⁰.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Bibliographies.
Note
  • 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'.
  • 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'.
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642447732
  • ECCO1-T147003
Title
The lives and memorable actions of many illustrious persons of the Eastern nations, [electronic resource] : 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.XXXIX. [1739]
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T147003.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
Added Author
Sale, George, 1697?-1736.
Morgan, J., active 1739.
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