IBN-BATUTA. - Lot 142

IBN-BATUTA. Viagens extensas e dilatadas do celebre Arabe Abu-Abdallah, mais conhecido pelo nome de Ben-Batuta... Traduzidas por José de Santo Antonio Moura... Lisboa, na Typographia da Academia, 1840-1855. 2 in-8 volumes of (3)-VII-533 pp. 2 ff. (errata) and (3)-VIII-446 pp. fine margins. Later, imitation, and probably Portuguese, fine marbled havana basane, 5-rib ornate spine, black title-pieces and tomaison, gilt date, gilt-iron decorated caissons, moiré spine-papers and endpapers, red heads, blue paper cover preserved (very slight rubbing to boards, edges and corners, spines and corners, light marginal wetness on a few quires in the 2 volumes, pdt volume II a little browned with some marginal soiling in the first quire). First and only Portuguese edition of Ibn Battuta's travels, translated from Arabic by José de Santo Antonio Moura. Bound at the end of volume II: P. Pissurlencar. Ainda a "Sidabur" by Ibn Batuta. Nova-Goa, Imprensa Gonçalves, 1932, (1)-10 pp. blue cover preserved. Modern bookplate: "A Verdade So / de Aucindio Rodrigues da Silva" on a japon-type paper endpaper. Modern ex libris in violet ink on top outer corner of pdt. Dated 12 juhno 1923. [Arab world].