Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395
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Sale 2395 - Lot 109

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[GIORGI, ANTONIO AGOSTINO.] Alphabetum Tibetanum missionum apostolicarum commodo editum. Full-page woodcut illustration of Tibetan writing implements. 208 pages. Extensive use of Tibetan type; additional use of Arabic, Coptic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac types. 4to, 278x208 mm, 19th-century 1/2 leather, spine defective, covers detached; contents generally clean, with only owner's signature and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession numbers on next leaf. Rome: typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1759 [i. e., 1763]
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Treatise on the alphabet and orthography of Tibetan. Petech, I Missionari Italiani nel Tibet I, xcix-cii; Streit-Dindinger VI, 573. For another edition greatly enlarged with additional material on Tibet, see lot 274. Despite their ostensible publication dates, both this edition (on page 205) and the other contain a notice of the death in 1763 of Cardinal Giuseppe Spinelli, Prefect of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, who encouraged Giorgi to write the book.