Arabic printing Kitab zabur Dawud al-malik wa'l-nabi [title in Arabic, i.e. The Psalms of David]. [London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge], 1725. 8vo in half-sheets (18.8 x 11cm), contemporary red half morocco gilt, edges sprinkled blue, [6] 230 pp., Arabic types throughout, title-page hand-ruled in red, moderate browning, a few marks; Rossi, Giambernardo de. Dizionario storico degli autori Arabi pieu celebri e delle principali loro opere. Parma: Stamperia imperiale, 1807. 8vo (22.6 x 15.4cm), contemporary wrappers, viii 196 [4] pp., spine defective, quires held by top two cords only; Keppel, Sir George Roos- (editor). Tarikh da Sultan Mahmud Ghaznawi [Title in Pashto, i.e. History of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznawi]. Lahore: Nulkishwar Press, c.1900. 4to (26 x 19.8cm), contemporary half cloth, 65 pp., Pashto text, lithographed throughout, decorative title-page, rear inner hinge cracked: and 6 others similar, including: Roos-Keppel (editor), Ganj-i Pushtu. Tasnif da Mawlawi Ahmad [title in Pashto, i.e. Treasury of Pashto, compiled by Mawlawi Ahmad], Lahore: Nulkishwar Press, [1893?], 4to, Pashto text, lithographed throughout, apparently bound without pp. 81-9; [Urdu poetry], Bagh wa-bahar [title in Urdu], London: William Watts, 1851, 8vo, contemporary half roan, 259 pp.; Qur'an, c.1850, lithographed throughout with interlinear Persian or Urdu translation, lacking at least the first leaf (with the Fatiha), worming, bookplate of William Muir, possibly the orientalist (1819-1905); and Hebrew items (9)

Note: The text of this 1725 edition of the Psalms in Arabic is a revision by Sulayman ibn Ya’qub al-Salihani, commonly known as Salomon Negri, of the translation by ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Fadl al-Antaki published at Aleppo in 1706. ‘The whole impression, consisting of upwards of six thousand copies, was sent abroad, so that a copy of it is now rarely to be seen’ (William Brown, The History of the Propagation of Christianity, 1814, volume 2, p. 632).