THE ARABIC DICTIONARY AL-QAMUS AL-MUHIT BY AL-FIRUZABADI (d. 1414)
Printed at the Official Press El Miriah, Boulaq, Cairo, Egypt, dated 1301 AH (1883 AD)

Arabic printed books, 2 volumes, respectively Volume 1 with 208 pages, 2 flyleaves, 1 endpaper, and Volume 2 with 233 pages, 1 fly-leaf, 2 endpapers, with a preface by Sheikh Nasr al-Hur Bani, the two volumes presenting the work of the Arabic lexicographer and linguist, Abū al-Ṭāhir Majīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ya’qūb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī al-Fīrūzābādī (1329 - 1414), known as Al-Qamus al-Muhit (The Encompassing Ocean), each volume divided into two separate sections, each with an opening folio, the colophon dated 1301 and printed by the Royal Press in Boulaq, a district of Cairo, accompanied by a French typed document explaining the content and translating the colophon, with handwritten annotations in French and the date and place, Lyon, 22 March 1930, stamped by the Protection des Travailleurs Nord-Africains, Lyon, both volumes in red leather bindings.

The text panel 23cm x 12cm, the page 27.3cm x 19.5cm