IBN SERAPION. & LE STRANGE (Guy), translator.

Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdad, written about the year 900 A.D. by Ibn Serapion.

Scarce account of Abbasid Mesopotamia

Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Folding map of Mesopotamia and sketch map of Baghdad. 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers; spine creased and darkened, tears at head and foot, lower wrapper torn along spine but holding. Opening pages a little dusty, rest of interior fairly fresh. 76, 255-315pp. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January and April, 1895.

£75.00

Ibn Serapion’s fascinating text on the geography of Abbasid Mesopotamia, with descriptions of the Tigris, Euphrates and waterways of Baghdad, circa 900 CE. In addition to Guy Le Strange’s introduction, notes and translation, a section of the original Arabic from the ms. is printed from page 9 to 32.

From the library of Sir Terence Clark, British Ambassador to Iraq from 1985-89. A sheet of his notes (on paper from The British Embassy, Baghdad) and a bookseller’s invoice from 1985 are loosely inserted.

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