Khitab fima yahsan dhikrihi min Ta'rikh al-Tijarat ‘and al-‘Arab wa al-‘Uthmaniyin idhalan li-Sharh Qanun-namat al-Tijarat al-‘Uthmaniyyah [Speech on Arab Ottoman Trade Relations touching upon Ottoman Trade Law]. [At head of title:] Al Nubadh al-Mukhtarah fi Ta'rikh al-Tijarah [Select Tracts on the History of Trade]

  • 12 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
  • Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Wādī al-Nīl, 1869
By (Arab-Ottoman Trade Relations) [Di Marca, Francis Anton]
Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Wādī al-Nīl, 1869. 12 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rose printed wrappers. Removed. Very good. Contemporary note in English at top of front wrapper, “E.A. Park, presented by the Vice Consul at Cairo”. 12 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Speech on the history of Arab Ottoman trade, noting the key position of Egypt as nexus between Red Sea and Mediterranean commercial routes. This was delivered at a time when Egypt was asserting greater claims of sovereignty under Isma‘il and when the trade laws were moving away from shari‘a basis to a commercial code, often derived from European models.

The author is named as the learned Italian Cavalieri Francis Anton DiMarca. Not in OCLC

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