May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CASIRI, MIGUEL. Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis. Volume 1 (of 2). [16], xxiv, 544 pages. Folio, 355x238 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine ends chipped, joints worn and starting, cover corners worn through; occasional browning or marginal foxing. Signatures of Frederic R. Marvin dated 1871. Madrid: Antonio Pérez de Soto, 1760

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first edition of a catalogue of Arabic manuscripts, largely by Spanish Muslim authors as well as some by Jews writing in Arabic or Greek authors in translation, in the library of the Escorial outside Madrid. The first volume contains descriptions of over 1500 items organized in sections on grammar, rhetoric, poetry, philology, lexicography, philosophy, ethics and politics, medicine, mathematics, law, and theology. The second volume was published in 1770. Palau 47287.