Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395
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Sale 2395 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 5,980
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
GIORGI, ANTONIO AGOSTINO. Alphabetum Tibetanum missionum apostolicarum commodo editum. 6 engraved plates, all but 2 folding. xciv, 3-820 pages, including half-title. Extensive use of Tibetan type; additional use of Arabic, Coptic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac types. 4to, 285x205 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 vellum with white ink shelf number on spine; few gatherings browned, repair in blank upper margin and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession numbers on next leaf, contents otherwise crisp and clean. Rome: typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1762 [i. e., 1763]
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The most extensive 18th-century European book on Tibet, drawing on Capuchin missionary reports for descriptions of its religion, history, geography, customs, and more. Pages [553]-759 reprint Giorgi's treatise on the Tibetan writing system (see lot 109). Ecclesiastical approbations dated 1763 appear on pages 5-7, and the notice of the death of Cardinal Spinelli the same year on page 757. Petech, I Missionari Italiani nel Tibet I, xcix-cii; Streit-Dindinger VI, 583.