8vo. xiv, 330 pp., Italian text, accompanied by comments and a biography on the Prophet, contemporary half-calf with marbled boards, cover rubbed, some foxing, mainly to endpapers, otherwise copy in good condition, Typography by Cesare Fabiani, Bastia, first edition, 1847.

Synopsis

Vincenzo Calza, an Italian scholar who served as a consul general in Algeria. This is the first and only edition of the Italian translation of the Qur’an, printed in Bastia (Corsica). The verses are consecutively numbered, the comments are in footnotes. Enay, 108.