Muruj al-Dahab Wa Ma’aden al-Jawhar (FIVE VOLUMES).

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8 vo, Vol I: 328 pp./ Volume II: 422 pp./ Volume III: 380 pp./ Volume IV: 382 pp./ Volume V: 302 pp. Arabic text, edition Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille & Charles Pellat; publishers’s original wrappers, unopened, slightly soiled cover, Publications de l’Universite Libanaise, section des etudes Historiques XI, Beirut, 1966-1974. Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille were the French translators for this edition. A century later, between 1966 and 1974 Charles Pellat revised the Arabic text for a more accurate edition published in five volumes by the Universite Libanaise in Beirut. Pellat also began revising the French translation.