Lot 183
Middle East.- Scaliger (Joseph Justus) and Thomas Erpenius. Proverbiorum Arabicorum, second edition, Leiden, Ex Typographia Erpeniana, Linguarum Orientalium, prostant apud J. Maire, 1623.
Hammer Price: £2,400
Description
Middle East.- Scaliger (Joseph Justus) and Thomas Erpenius. Proverbiorum Arabicorum, second edition, text in Latin and Arabic, woodcut printer's device on title, repeated on otherwise blank final leaf, ink annotations, marginal browning, disbound and loosely inserted within contemporary limp vellum, soiled and lacking ties, 8vo, Leiden, Ex Typographia Erpeniana, Linguarum Orientalium, prostant apud J. Maire, 1623.
⁂ Scarce second edition of this study of Arabic proverbs. It first appeared in 1614, but the second edition is considered superior as it was revised by Erpenius just before his death in 1624.
Description
Middle East.- Scaliger (Joseph Justus) and Thomas Erpenius. Proverbiorum Arabicorum, second edition, text in Latin and Arabic, woodcut printer's device on title, repeated on otherwise blank final leaf, ink annotations, marginal browning, disbound and loosely inserted within contemporary limp vellum, soiled and lacking ties, 8vo, Leiden, Ex Typographia Erpeniana, Linguarum Orientalium, prostant apud J. Maire, 1623.
⁂ Scarce second edition of this study of Arabic proverbs. It first appeared in 1614, but the second edition is considered superior as it was revised by Erpenius just before his death in 1624.
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