A SET OF EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT’S AUTHORISED JOURNALS, AL-WAQAI...

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A SET OF EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT’S AUTHORISED JOURNALS, AL-WAQAI’ AL- MISRIYYA
EARLY 20TH CENTURY REGISTRATIONS, 8 VOLUMES
It includes two volumes of 1927, five volumes of 1932 and one volume of 1931, including registrations of properties and lands, bound in blue cardboard with blue framed library stamps

33, 3 x 25 cm, each approx. 4096 gr x 8 volumes

Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya was an Egyptian newspaper (now a government information bulletin) established in 1828 on the order of Muhammad Ali, originally called "Vekayi-i Misriye" and written in Ottoman Turkish in one column with an Arabic translation in a second column (Ottoman Turkish text was in the right one and Arabic text in the left one), and later in Arabic only[1] under the Arabic title