George Alexander Wilken: Matriarchy or Mother-Right with the Ancient Arabians, translated by Sir James Redhouse

Scope and Content

'Matriarchy or Mother-Right with the Ancient Arabians' by G. A. Wilken, Professor of Ethnography of the Indian Archipelago in Leyden. Translated by [Sir] Jas Wm Redhouse, C.M.G, LL.D., M.R.A.S. (p. ii) blank; (p. ix) title; (p. x) blank; (p.xi) list of contents; (p. xviii) blank; (p. 1) text; (p. 150) blank; (p. 151) index; (p. 217) Arabic index; (p. 221) blank. The original was printed at Amsterdam in 1884. 124 fos 7.5 x 4.75 in.

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Sir James Redhouse, 1885.

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