Lot 1129
1129
DURET, V. Thresor de l'histoire des langues de cest univers. Contenant les origines, beautés, perfections, decadences, mutations, changemens, conversions, & ruines des langues Hebraique, Chananeenne, [… and 54 other languages]. 2e éd. Yverdon, Soc. Helvetiale Caldoresque, 1619. (32), 1030 (recte 1020) pp. W. fold table & sev. woodcuts depicting alphabets. Mod. vellum w. cf. label. (Pencil annot. on free endpaper and a few in the text, a bit browned/foxed in places).
Second edition (first Cologne 1613) of a work that offers the most extensive summary of what was then known about Oriental and Western languages, scripts, and literatures, with over 50 samples of scripts. - Hoefer XV, 457; (ed. of 1613:) Caillet, 3444; Cioranesco, 9158.€ 500
result € 400
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