Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
AMADUZZI, GIOVANNI CRISTOFORO. Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum universitatis Kasi. xx, 152 pages * Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum. 9 folding tables. xxviii, 100 pages * Alphabetum Tangutanum sive Tibetanum. Folding table. xvi, 138, [2] pages, including final blank * Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae finitimarumque regionum. Folding plate. xliv, 51 pages, including initial blank. Together, 4 volumes. 8vo, approximately 193x130 mm, Alphabetum Tangutanum disbound, the rest in old wrappers, Alphabetum Brammhanicum lacking front cover, all bindings but the second broken; occasional toning and soiling, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title and accession number on next leaf in each volume, first and third titles heavily soiled, dark stain in lower margins in fourth work. Rome: Sac. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, 1771; 1772; 1773; 1776

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first editions of descriptions of the writing systems of Sanskrit, Malayalam, Tibetan, and Burmese. Birrell & Garnett 12, 16, 17, 18; Smitskamp 206-209.