Symbolae ad rem numariam Muhammedanorum (In: Nova acta regiae societatis scientiarum Upsaliensis. Seriei tertiae vol. II).
Uppsala, Leffler, 1856-1858.
Small folio (230 x 288 mm). (10), 256, (3), XXVII, 257-406, (3), XXVII, 18 pp. With woodcut title vignette and 14 numbered lithographed plates. Contemporary blue wrappers with stamped volume number to spine.
$391.00
Academic periodical of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala, comprising papers in Latin and French by prominent Swedish scholars, including the orientalist Carl Johan Tornberg (1807-77). The plates show Islamic and pre-Islamic coins studied by Tornberg.
Near-contemporary handwritten ownership of B. E. Hovén to title-page, dated 4 December 1880. Slightly worn at extremities. A partly uncut copy.