Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
PAULINUS à SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO [i. e., JOHANN PHILIPP WERDIN or WESDIN]. Sidharubam seu Grammatica Samscrdamica. 188 pages. 4to, 245x183 mm, 19th-century 1/2 leather, worn, front joint starting; foxing at beginning and end, few gatherings browned, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf. Rome: Typographia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1790

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first edition of the first European grammar of Sanskrit. Paulinus (1748-1806) was an Austrian Carmelite missionary and orientalist. See also lot 288.