Elzevier.- Arabic.- Golius (Jacobus) Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, first edition, double column, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional ink marginalia, a few ff. loose, or working loose, occasional spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, gilt spine in compartments and with large red morocco label, upper corners repaired, lower corners little worn, covers rubbed and marked, [Willems 723; Schnurier 79], folio, Leiden, Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1653.

⁂ A handsome production, in fact printed by Jean and Daniel Elzevier, but printed under their fathers' names as a tribute. Golius was an orientalist and mathematician at the University of Leiden.

Provenance: Henry George Farmer, Bearsden, Scotland; 'Ex Bibliotheca Elzeviriana Jacobi Brovn Craven Kirkvallensis' (bookplates); J. Hollywood (19th century ink signature to head of title).