Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 406
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BEAUSOBRE, ISAAC DE. Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manichéisme. 3 folding tables; map. [4], lxxvi, 594; viii, xxxiv, 806 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 244x182 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, shelf labels unobtrusively removed; occasional toning or browning. Booklabels of the Unitarian scholar and educator Frederic Huidekoper (1817-92); perforated stamps of Meadville Theological School on titles. Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1734

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first edition of a pioneering study of Manichaeism by a Huguenot scholar (1659-1738). Encyclopedia Iranica IV/1, 70-71.