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Kitāb al-Kashkūl ([publisher not identified], 1879), by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ʻĀmilī (page images at HathiTrust)
Tadhkirat Ibn Ḥamdūn : al-siyāsah wa al-ādāb al-malakīyah. (Maktabat al-Khānjī, 1927), by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Ḥamdūn (page images at HathiTrust)

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Encyclopēdie arabe (Maṭbūʻāt-ī al-Hilal, 1900), by Buṭrus ibn Būlus Bustānī (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Munjid. (1921), by Luwīs Maʻlūf (page images at HathiTrust)
Encyclopedie arabe (880-04 Bayrūt : Dār al-Maʻrifah, 1876- [reprinted], 1876), by Buṭrus ibn Būlus Bustānī, Sulaymān Khaṭṭār Bustānī, and Salīm Bustānī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb ʻuyūn al-masāʼil min aʻyān al-rasāʼil : wa-fīhi min al-funūn thathāthūn fannan awwaluhum ʻilm al-qawāfī wa-ākhiruhum ʻilm al- taqwīm ([Cairo] : M.ʻU. al-Ḥusāmī, 1316 [1898 or 9] : Maṭbaʻat al-Salām), 1898), by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad Ṭabarī and Muḥammad ʻUmar Ḥusāmī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá (880-04 al-Qāhirah : Dār al-Kutub al-Khudaywīyah, 1331-1340 [1913-1922], 1913), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Qalqashandī (page images at HathiTrust)
Lexicon bibliographicum et encyclopaedicum ... : ad codicum Vindobonensium Parisiensium et Berolinensis fidem primum (Published for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1835), by Kâtip Çelebi and Gustav Lebrecht Fluegel (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Kashkūl ([publisher not identified], 1900), by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī Yazdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb Itmām al-dirāyah li-qurrāʾ al-Nuqāyah (Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī, 1891), by Suyūṭī (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Kamel : (Schluss.) (Kaiserlich-Königlichen hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1856), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
Die osmanischen Geschichtschreiber der neueren Zeit : Biographien derselben sammt Beschreibung und Inhaltsverzeichniss von deren bisher in Europa unbekannt gebliebenen historischen Leistungen (Kaiserl.-Königl. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1857), by Ottokar Schlechta von Wssehrd (page images at HathiTrust)
Fortsetzung der Auszüge encyklopädischen Werken der Araber, Perser und Türken (Kaiserl.-Königl. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1859), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb alif bā (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Wahbīyah, ʻalá dhimmat Jamʻīyat al-Maʻārif, 1870), by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Abū al-Ḥajjāj al-Balawī (page images at HathiTrust)
Dāʼirat maʻārif al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar, al-ʻishrīn (880-03 al-Qāhirah : [Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī], 1911-1918., 1911), by Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Qism al-jughrāfī (Al-Maṭbaʻah al-Sūrīyah, 1875), by Salīm ibn Jibrāʼīl Khūrī and Salīm Mīkhāʼīl Shiḥādah (page images at HathiTrust)
Über die encyklopädie der Perser, Araber und Türken (Wien, 1856), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall and al Shīrāzī Mahmūd ibn masʻūd (page images at HathiTrust)
Über die Encyklopädie der Araber, Perser und Türken. (Aus der K.-K. Hof- und Staats-druckerei, In Commission bei K. Gerold's Sohn, 1857), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
Suʻūd al-maṭāliʻ fīmā taḍammanahu al-alghāz fī ism ḥaḍrat wālī Miṣr min al-ʻulūm al-lawāmiʻ (Dār al-Ṭibāʻah al-ʻĀmirah, 1866), by ʻAbd al-Hādī Najā ibn Raḍwān Najā Abyārī and Québec) Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church (Montréal (page images at HathiTrust)
ʻUyūn al-akhbār (880-05 Miṣr : al-Sayyid Muḥammad Amīn al-Khānjī al-Maktabī wa-Shurakāh, 1324 [H.], [1906? M.], 1906), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim Ibn Qutaybah (page images at HathiTrust)
Dā’irat maʻārif al-qarn al-ʻishrīn (880-05 [Miṣr] : Maṭbaʻat Dā’irat Maʻārif al-Qarn al-ʻIshrīn, 1342-1343 H. = 1923-1925 M., 1923), by Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Dāʼirat maʻārif al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar, al-ʻishrīn (Dāʼirat Maʻārif al-Qarn al-ʻIshrīn, 1923), by Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Mushkilāt al-ʻulūm. Wa-yalīh sharḥ khuṭbat ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib lil-Narāqī ayḍan. Bi-ihtimām al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī. (s.n., 1905), by Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Abī Ẕarr Narāqī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kanz al-ʻulūm wa-al-lughah (qāmūs ʻāmm lil-lughah wa-al-ʻilm) : dāʼirat maʻārif ʻāmmah taḥtawī ʻalá faṣīḥ al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah wa-khulāṣāt al-ʻulūm al-naqlīyah wa-al-ʻaqlīyah wa-al-ṭabīʻīyah wa-al-tārīkhīyah wa-al-ʻumrānīyah wa-tarājim al-mashāhīr wa-fīhā min al-fawāʼid al-ṭibbīyah wa-al-ʻilājīyah wa-al-wasāʼil al-ḥayawīyah mā yaḥtāju al-insān ilayhi fī sāʼir aḥwālih al-maʻīshīyah (M.F. Wajdī, 1905), by Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Āthār al-adʹhār. al-Qism al-tārīkhī. (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Sūrīyah, 1875), by Salīm ibn Jibrāʼīl Khūrī and Salīm Mīkhāʼīl Shiḥādah (page images at HathiTrust)
Tadhkirat Ibn Ḥamdūn : al-siyāsah wa al-ādāb al-malakīyah. (Maktabat al-Khānjī, 1927), by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Ḥamdūn (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic -- Early works to 1600

Kitāb Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá (880-04 al-Qāhirah : Dār al-Kutub al-Khudaywīyah, 1331-1340 [1913-1922], 1913), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Qalqashandī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb miftāḥ al-saʻādah wa-miṣbaḥ al-siyādah fī mawḍūʻāt al-ʻulūm (Maṭbaʻat Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif al-Niẓāmīyah, 1911), by Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic -- History and criticism

Étude bibliographique sur les [mawsūʻāt al-ʻulūm al-ʻArabīyah] = encyclopédıes arabes wa-baḥth ʻalá (Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ) (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Amīrīyah, 1891), by approximately 1866-1934 Aḥmad Zakī (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800

The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge (Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co., 1870), by Andrew Boorde, Frederick James Furnivall, and XXX. Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
Extrait d'un dictionnaire inutile (A 500 lieues de l'Assemblée nationale, 1790), by M. Gallais (page images at HathiTrust)
Nouveau dictionnaire pour servir de supplément aux dictionnaires des sciences, des arts et des métiers (chez Panckoucke :, 1776), by Marc Michel Rey, Bernard Brunet, Jean George Antoine Stoupe, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, Jean Le Rond d' Alembert, Denis Diderot, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
Table analytique et raisonnée des matieres contenues dans les XXIII volumes... du dictionnaire des sciences, des arts, et des métiers et dans son supplement. (chez Panckoucke ;, 1780), by Marc Michel Rey, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
The complete dictionary of arts and sciences. In which the whole circle of human learning is explained, and the difficulties attending the acquisition of every art, whether liberal or mechanical, are removed, in the most easy and familiar manner ... (printed for the authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J. Fell ... J. Fletcher & Co. ... J. Coote ... Fletcher & Hodson, Cambridge and W. Smith & Co. Dublin, 1766), by James Fletcher, William Smith, John Coote, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark, Temple Henry Croker, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), Fletcher and Hodson (Cambridge), and Wilson and Fell (Londres) (page images at HathiTrust)
The complete dictionary of arts and sciences. In which the whole circle of human learning is explained, and the difficulties attending the acquisition of every art, whether liberal or mechanical, are removed, in the most easy and familiar manner ... (printed for the authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J. Fell ... J. Fletcher & Co. ... J. Coote ... Fletcher & Hodson, Cambridge and W. Smith & Co. Dublin, 1765), by James Fletcher, William Smith, John Coote, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark, Temple Henry Croker, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), Fletcher and Hodson (Cambridge), and Wilson and Fell (Londres) (page images at HathiTrust)
The complete dictionary of arts and sciences. In which the whole circle of human learning is explained, and the difficulties attending the acquisition of every art, whether liberal or mechanical, are removed, in the most easy and familiar manner ... (printed for the authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J. Fell ... J. Fletcher & Co. ... J. Coote ... Fletcher & Hodson, Cambridge and W. Smith & Co. Dublin, 1766), by James Fletcher, William Smith, John Coote, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark, Temple Henry Croker, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), Fletcher and Hodson (Cambridge), and Wilson and Fell (Londres) (page images at HathiTrust)
Suite du recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et mechaniques, avec leur explication : deux cens quarente-quatre planches. (chez Panckoucke Libraire ... :, 1777), by Marc Michel Rey, Bernard Brunet, Jean George Antoine Stoupe, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, Richomme, and Robert Benard (page images at HathiTrust)
Le Grand dictionaire historique, ou Le Melange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane ... (aux Dépens de la Compagnie, 1702), by Louis Moréri, Compagnie des Libraires (La Haya), and Compagnie des Libraires (Amsterdam) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionaire historique et crítique (chez Reinier Leers, 1702), by Pierre Bayle and Reinier Leers (page images at HathiTrust)
Lexicon technicum: or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences. (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1966), by John Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionnaire géographique-portatif, ou Description des royaumes, provinces, villes, patriarchats ... et autres lieux considerables des quatre parties du monde. (Chez les libraires associés, 1770), by Vosgien and Laurence Echard (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature (Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797), by Andrew Bell, George Gleig, and Colin MacFarquhar (page images at HathiTrust)
Textoris Nivernensis Officina. (Apvd Bartolomævm VVesthemervm, 1538), by Joannes Ravisius Textor (page images at HathiTrust)
ʻUyūn al-akhbār (880-05 Miṣr : al-Sayyid Muḥammad Amīn al-Khānjī al-Maktabī wa-Shurakāh, 1324 [H.], [1906? M.], 1906), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim Ibn Qutaybah (page images at HathiTrust)
New complete dictionary of arts and sciences (Printed, by authority, for the authors :, 1778), by S. Leacroft, Alexander Hogg, John Davison, Thomas Ellis, William Turnbull, and Erasmus Middleton (page images at HathiTrust)
New universal history of the religious rites, ceremonies and customs of the whole world (Printed for Alexander Hogg ..., 1780), by William Hurd and Alexander Hogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Table alphabétique des dictionnaires, en toutes sortes de langues et sur toutes sortes de sciences & d'arts. (Chez Hug. Chaubert, quai des Augustins, à la Renommée :, 1758), by Jacques Bernard Durey de Noinville, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hérissant, Hugues-Daniel Chaubert, and Abbé Bellet (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Ṣurāḥ min al-Ṣiḥāḥ (1500), by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Jamāl Qarshī and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects. (London : Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ..., 1686), by Richard Blome (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Filed under: Classical dictionaries -- Early works to 1800

Elucidarius poeticus, sive, Dictionarium nominum propriorum : uirorum, mulierum, populorum, idolorum, urbium, fluuiorum, montium, caeterorumq[ue] locorum quae passim in libris prophanis leguntur. : Liber planè nouus, ex optimis quibusque & fide dignis scriptoribus collectus. : Cui nonnulla in gratiam studiosorum adiecimus, quae in prima aeditione desiderabantur, lectu quo que non infrugifera. (Ex officina Ioannis Loëi., 1545), by Robert Estienne and Ioannis Loëus (page images at HathiTrust)
M. Frider. Hildebrandi Antiquitates Románae (J. Visch, 1713), by Friedrich Hildebrand and Otto Aicher (page images at HathiTrust)
Lexicon antiqvitatvm romanarvm (Excudit Franciscus Halma ... , 1713), by Samuel Pitiscus, François Halma, Philipp van Gunst, Arnold Houbraken, Bernard Picart, and Matthys Pool (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum, (Ex officinâ Guilielmi Hall; impensis ejusdem, & Guilielmi Downing, prostant venales apud Joh: Williams..., 1670), by Charles Estienne, Philippus Ferrarius, and Nicholas Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)

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