- Additional Authors
- Description
- [8],300p.; 12⁰.
- Subject
- Biographical fiction, English > Early works to 1800
- Genre/Form
- Bibliographies.
- Note
- This issue lacks a dedication and has an initial advertisement leaf which states that 'These short memorials .. was [sic] design'd, and begun to be translated into English, by the late ingenious Mr. George Sale'.
- Another issue lacks the advertisement leaf but has a dedication, signed: J. Morgan, which states that though 'The bookseller who purchased these loose papers [presumably Wilcox], fancies he has good grounds to believe they appertained to the late ingenious Mr. George Sale, .. yet not a syllable of this was his writing'.
- Morgan claims responsibility for 'in all about a fourth of the whole'.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Indexed In (note)
- English Short Title Catalog
- Reproduction (note)
- OCLC
- Title
The lives and memorable actions of many illustrious persons of the Eastern nations, [electronic resource] : such as khalifas, sultans, wazirs, or Prime-Ministers, Generals, Philosophers, Poets, &c. who have distinguish'd themselves, either by War, Learning, Humanity, Justice, &c. Extracted from the most authentick Oriental chronologers and historians. Never before Englished.
- Imprint
London : printed for J. Wilcox, at Virgil's Head, opposite the New Church in the Strand, M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T147003.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
- Added Author
Sale, George, 1697?-1736.
Morgan, J., active 1739.