Accounts and Extracts of the Manuscripts in the Library of the King of France. Published Under the Inspection of a Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Translated from the French. Volume I
(Académie Royale Des Sciences)
London: R. Faulder et al, 1789. F Volume I only of this two volume compilation; ii + (1) errata + 418 pages; the Translator's Preface notes "...The French monarch, in the publication now before us, has set an example to all Europe, well worthy to be followed. The advantages which are likely to accrue to the learned world..."; with contents with "An Historical Essay..." by M. de Guignes, "On the Origin of the Oriental Characters in the Royal Printing-House, on the Works which have been printed at Paris, in Arabic, in Syriac, in Armenian, &c. and on the Greek Characters of Francis I. commonly called the King's Greek" and other contributions on printing and much on travel literature and the history of science by the same author; "An account of an autographical chronicle of Bernard Iterius, librarian of the abbey of St. Martial de Limoges in the thirteenth century." & other pieces by M. de Breguigny, "An Account of a Greek Lexicon" by M. de Rochefort; "An Account of a manuscript of Eschylus in the king's library, No. 2789, compared with the edition of Paw" by M. Vauvilliers; "The book of councils, by Sheik Feriddin-Mahommed-ben Ibrahaim-al-Attar-al-Nischabouri." by M. Silvestre de Sacy; bound in later dark green textured cloth, brown leather spine, gilt spine titles; some edge, tips wear & scarring to leather of binding; title page foxed a bit; otherwise contents very clean and in fairly fresh condition; interesting French library history from the 18th century. Good (Item ID: 18949)
$125.00
