Hieronymo XAVIER, Ludovico DE DIEU
Historia Christi Persice conscripta, simulque multis modis contaminata, a P. Hieronymo Xavier, Soc. Jesu. Latine reddita & animadversionibus notata a Ludovico de Dieu [suivi de] Rudimenta linguae Persicae. Accedunt duo priora capita Geneseos, ex Persica translatione Iac. Tawusi
[History of Christ written in Persian, and corrupted in many ways, by Father Jerome Xavier, of the Society of Jesus. Translated into Latin and annotated by Louis de Dieu] bound with [Rudiments of the Persian Language. Together with the first two chapters of Genesis, translatedinto persian by Jacob Tawusi]
Ex Officina Elzeviriana|Lugduni Batavorum [Leyde [Leiden]] 1639|15.3 x 20.8 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
Rare first edition.
Full vellum binding over boards with flaps, smooth spine, title inked partly faded at the spine head, some blemishes on the boards, edges spotted red.
A fine and rare copy.
Bookseller’s descriptive labels pasted on an endpaper.
Backer & Sommervogel VIII, 1339-1340 (considers the two parts as separate works). Willems, 490 (clearly explains that the two parts form a single title, published at once) and 477 (for the Persian grammar, which forms a separate title and constitutes the second attempt of its kind for Western use).
€8,000