AḤMAD ZAKĪ BĀŠĀ [Aḥmad ZAKĪ]
Coupe magique dédiée à Salah ad-Din. Titres royaux, tolérance et portrait[Magic Bowl Dedicated to Saladin. Royal Titles, Tolerance and Portrait]
Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale|Cairo 1915|16.5 x 25 cm|Broché
Limited first edition printed in a small number of copies, extracted from the "Bulletin de l'Institut égyptien", series V, vol. X.
Illustrated booklet with 4 figures in the text and 2 plates outside the text.
Only one copy recorded in the CCF.
A tear to the foot of the spine, covers marginally soiled and also bearing small black stains, internally in good condition.
A publicist and collector, then secretary to the Council of Ministers, Ahmad Zaki Basha (1867-1934) was, between 1892 and 1934, one of the most dynamic figures of Egyptian cultural life: a polyglot, translator, bibliophile, philologist, and man of learning, keenly interested in modernity and
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