Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
GRIGHOR ABU AL-FARAJ [or BAR HEBRAEUS]. Historia compendiosa dynastiarum. Arabic text with Latin translation by Edward Pococke. [12], [4] (of [10]), 66, [2]; 368, [80]; 565 pages, with supplement bound before Latin translation; supplement lacks title and next 2 preliminaries, volume of Arabic text lacks title and final blank. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to, 200x160 mm, contemporary calf, quite worn, covers detached or starting, white ink shelf numbers on spines, Volume 2 spine defective; contents toned with occasional browning, worming through preliminaries and supplement in first volume slightly affecting text, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title and on blank last page of second volume, with accession number on preceding leaf. Inscription of the Maurist Benedictine Monastery of Notre Dame des Blancs Manteaux in Paris dated 1713. Oxford: H. Hall for Ric. Davis, 1663

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first edition of the author's Arabic abridgment of the secular portion of his Syriac world chronicle from the Creation to the 13th-century. Graf II, 275; Madan, Oxford Books 2629; Sarton II, 976; Wing G2024.