Rare Arabic-Jawi Dictionary For Sale

Rare Arabic-Jawi Dictionary

For Sale

This book has now been sold by The Penang Bookshelf.
Thanks for your interest!

A Kuala Lumpur bookseller has approached The Penang Bookshelf to see if any of its customers would be interested in getting their hands on this unusual book. It appears to be the first or one of the first Arabic-Jawi dictionaries ever published. It was probably published in Cairo sometime around the beginning of the 20th century.

The book has been rebound, but the original spine has been retained. You can see a photo of the book with its current cover and other photos of the book here.  The bookseller describes the book's conditon as follows: -

"There are slight worm holes in the back margins, 20 or so in the last 20 pages and 'very very few in the next back 50 or so. The beginning is similar, all small margin holes, 20 or so in the first 50 pages and thereafter very few. The bulk of the text has no holes. I can only say this copy is in excellent condition relative to the only 2 other copies I have seen for sale.On the title page there is a Jawi name and the date 7.6.04, can this be 1904? Someone else told me the date is 1931 but the plane in the picture section is far too early for this later date.

It is a very interesting text with plenty of illustrations and picture pages. It is of course in black and white throughout on yellowed paper. It has little foxing and the paper seems strong."

If you are interested to know more please contact me, William Knox, on 012-972-6485 or by email. An appointment to view the book in Kuala Lumpur can be arranged.