Printing in Hebrew & Oriental languagesThere are 7 items
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Les incunables orientaux et les impressions orientales au commencement du XVIe siècle
Nieuwkoop, B. de Graaf, 1964(20.5 cm), 138 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - 530 entries of Hebrew books, published 1475-1540. Reprint of the 1883 edition published by L. Techener, Paris. Publisher’s retail price €56 (www.brill.com; link). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Annali tipografici dei Soncino
Farnborough, Gregg International Publishers, 1969(21 cm), [823] pp., 10 plates. Publisher’s cloth. - 147 editions are described. Facsimile reprint of Manzoni’s uncompleted annals of the Soncino family of printers (vols. I, 2/fascicule 1, 3/fascicules 1-3, 4/fascicule 1, published Bologna: Presso Gaetano Romagnoli, 1883-1886). ¶ Very good copy. -
[Stock catalogues, hors série] Philologia orientalis. A description of books illustrating the study and printing of Oriental languages in Europe. I : Sixteenth century § [Stock catalogues, numbered series: 524] … II : Seventeenth century § [Stock catalogues, numbered series: 580] … III : Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1976-1991Three volumes (22 cm), I (1976): xlvii, 1-87 (1) pp., illustrations (one printed red & black). Items 1-84; priced. Errata slip loosely inserted. II (1983): (4) pp., pp.93-220, illustrations. Items 85-232; priced. III (1991): (4) pp., pp.225-372, illustrations. Items 233-381; priced. Uniform publisher’s printed wrappers. - First editions of these erudite catalogues, which have found their due place among the most useful reference works in Arabic bibliography. Loosely inserted in our copy is the preface and cumulative indexes issued in 1992. After the closure of Brill’s antiquarian department in the early 1990s, Smitskamp continued trading as “Oriental Antiquarium” (that business ceased in February 2006, and the stock sold by the Leiden auctioneers Burgersdijk & Niermans, in May 2006; cf. Jan Just Witkam, “A Giant Fades Away” in Ezelsoor: Newsletter of the Department of Book and Digital Media Studies, Spring 2006, pp.1-8). ¶ Fine set. -
Illustration in early Hebrew printing 1474-1700 : an exhibition in the British Library (British Museum building) from 15 December 1979 to 29 June 1980
London, British Library / Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, 1979(29.5 cm), folded sheet, [4] pp., 1 illustration. Self-wrappers. - 50 exhibits. ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
Early Armenian printing (1512-1800) (handlist for an exhibition held in the British Library, July-December 1980)
London, British Library / Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, 1980(29.5 cm), 6 pp., illustrations. Self-wrappers. ¶ Creases; otherwise a good, unmarked copy. -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 524] Philologia orientalis : II : Seventeenth century
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1983(22 cm), (4) pp., pp.93-220, illustrations. Items numbered 85-232; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Part II (of three) only, describing 17th-century books concerned with Philologia orientalis: works by Erpenius (item nos. 85-90), early Syriac studies (nos. 91-98), German Orientalism until c. 1640 (nos. 99-133), travels to the Holy Land (nos. 124-148), Buxtorf (nos. 149-178), Italian Orientalism until c. 1640 (nos. 179-233). “An appendix listing, with references, the Syriac and Arabic type-faces occurring in the books (or otherwise mentioned) is a most useful feature, lacking in nearly all library catalogues and other bibliographies of such material” (from a review by Geoffrey Roper, in Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), volume 12, 1985, pp. 103-104). ¶ Very good copy -
Hebrew typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815 : Historical evaluation and descriptive bibliography
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1984-1987Two volumes (27 cm), I (1984): viii, 232 pp., illustrations. II (1987): viii, pp.[233]-504. Uniform publisher’s cloth (no dust jackets issued). - Bibliography of books printed in Leiden, Franeker, and Amsterdam, “which contain more or less continuous Hebrew texts” (p.10); 639 catalogue entries. Publisher’s retail price €295 (www.brill.com; link). ¶ Superior copy in almost new condition.
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