Lot 950
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HOTTINGER, J.H. Historia Orientalis: quae ex variis Orientalium monumentis collecta, agit De Muhammedismo, (…) De Saracenismo, (…) De Chaldaismo (…), (etc.). Zurich, typis, J.J. Bodmeri, 1651. (16), 373, (22) pp. 4°. Cont. cf. (Skilfully rebacked in antique style mod. cf., corners a bit bumped, paste downs & last free endpaper gone, faint stamp on ti-p., margins a bit browned and frayed (espec. at the beginning), lower outer corner faintly stained throughout, some underl. in an old hand, a bit foxed in places).
This work can be considered to be one of the earliest scholarly handbooks of Islamic history and religion. The Swiss theologian J.H. Hottinger (1620-67) studied under Golius at Leiden, and was befriended with the foremost scholars of his days like Pococke and Grotius. - Graesse III, 378.€ 320
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