Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ABUDACNUS, JOSEPH. Historia Jacobitarum, seu Coptorum in Aegypto, Libya, Nubia, Æthiopia tota, & Cypri insulæ part habitantium. Engraved plate depicting ecclesiastical headgear. [8], 205, [10] pages. Some use of Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew type. bound after: NICOLAI, JOHANN. De luctu Christianorum seu de ritibus ad sepulturam pertinentibus. vi, [2], 215, [6] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary vellum, covers warped; scattered minor foxing, old institutional stamp on Nicolai title. Leiden: Joannes Hasbroeck, 1740; 1739
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Later edition of the posthumously published 1675 account of the Coptic Church by an Egyptian Copt (fl. 1595-1643) active in Europe as a teacher of oriental languages and interpreter; bound with a work on Christian funeral practices.