Selden, John. De di[i]s Syris snytagmata II. Editio omnium novissima, opera Andreae Beyeri.

Leipzig, Sigismund Cörner , 1668.

8vo. 2 vols. in one. (38), 373, (51) pp. (6), 338, (36) pp. With engr. t. p. (wants the table). Contemp. auburn morocco, richly gilt. All edges gilt.

$3,908.00

Third edition, the second edited by Andreas Beyer (first published in London in 1617). Selden (1584-1654) "first won fame in Europe as an orientalist by his treatise 'De Diis Syris', the first of his oriental studies [...] use was also made of it by Vossius in his great treatise on idiolatry" (DNB).

Elaborately bound gilt binding; insignificantly rubbed with minute restoration to upper spine-end.

References

VD 17, 23:320175K. DNB 1161. Graesse VI/1, 343. Cf. STC S 1861.

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