Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HUNT, THOMAS. De antiquitate, elegantia, utilitate, linguae Arabicae, oratio. [2], 56, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. Some use of Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac types. 4to, 238x190 mm, disbound; contents generally clean, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf. Oxford: at the Theater for Richard Clements, 1739

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first edition of Hunt's inaugural lecture as Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford, on the virtues of Arabic and value of studying it.