Jacob Christian LINDBERG
De Inscriptione Melitensi phoenicio-Graeca commentatio, quam pro magisterii honoribus inter publica ob auspicatissimas celsissimorum principum Friderici Caroli Christiani et Guilielmae Mariae nuptias gaudia rite obtinendis publico eruditorum examini in auditorio Collegii Elersiani d. VII nov. submittit (...)[A Commentary on the Phoenician-Greek Inscription of Malta, publicly submitted in the auditorium of Elers College on 7 November in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master’s degree, and issued on the occasion of the celebrations marking the marriage of the illustrious princes Frederick Charles Christian and Wilhelmina Maria (...)]
Fabritius de Tengnagel|Copenhagen 1828|12.5 x 20.2 cm|Broché
First edition illustrated with 7 plates printed outside the text.
A snag with loss to the front wrapper, foxing throughout, dampstain to the rear wrapper.
A commentary on the bilingual Phoenician and Greek inscription engraved on one of the two Cippi of Melqart, dating from the 2nd century BC and presented in 1782 to Louis XVI by the Grand Master of the Hospitallers.
It was then housed at the Bibliothèque Mazarine and has been preserved at the Louvre since 1864.
€750