8vo. ix, 288 pp., original cloth, title gilt on spine, index, translated by John Sutherland Black and revised by the author, from Bath Public Library with usual blindstamps and label verso front cover, shelf reference on spine, some spotting on end leaves, otherwise copy clean and in very good condition, Adam and Charles Black, London & Edinburgh, first English edition, 1892.

Synopsis

An important series of sketches on the Semitic race: the Koran, Islam, The Caliph Mansur, A Servil war in the East, Yacoub the Coppersmith and his dynasty, etc.