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The natural history section from a 9th century "Book of useful knowledge" : the Uyun al-akhbar /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?
Other Authors:	Kopf, Lothar, Bodenheimer, F. S. (Friedrich Simon), 1897-1959
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Paris : Academie internationale d'histoire des sciences : Hermann, 1949.
Series:	Collection des travaux de l'Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences ; no. 4.
Subjects:	Zoology > Pre-Linnean works. Science, Medieval.

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