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[Ibn Gabirol]; Stephen S. Wise.
The Improvement of Moral Qualities: An ethical treatise of the eleventh century by Solomon ibn Gabirol, printed from an unique Arabic manuscript, together with a translation, and an essay on the place of Gabirol in the history of the development of Jewish ethics.
Published New York: AMS Press, 1966 reissue (originally published by Columbia University Press, 1902).
Series: Columbia University Oriental Studies, vol. 1.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 146x222x18mm.
Page count: ix,168pp plus a monochrome frontispiece.
Main languages: introduction and translation in English, with an edition of the text in Arabic.
Overall condition good: a little wear to the edges and corners of the boards.


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Weight without packaging: 381g.

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