Jose-Maria de Heredia

Claude-Etienne Savary, Morality of Muhammad or a collection of the purest maxims of the Qur'an. Constantinople & Paris, Lamy, 1784. 16mo, [4]-91p. Original edition very rare of this work in which one will find "only thoughts proper to elevate the soul & to remind man of his duties toward the Divinity, toward himself & toward others." Exemplar on fine laid paper (Hollande?). Full calf binding of the period, decorated spine, gilt edges. Bottom of the spine damaged (worm holes with no effect on the paper). Very rare.

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