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ORIENTAL TYPES Caratteri Orientali Esistenti nella Tipografia della R. Accad. dei Lincei
réf. 1670Lovely "oriental" type samples from one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions. Very rare: WorldCat traces only one copy in Uni. California Santa Barbara. No copy traced in the Italian Union catalogue OPAC SBN. In 1611 Galileo Galilei became a member of the Italian "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed" founded just a few years before in 1603 with a focus on natural sciences and mathematics. In the late 19th c. the Accademia dei Lincei became "Reale" growing into a famous centre of studies which would soon host the greatest scholars such as Pasteur Einstein Mommsen and others. As its programme was expanded with many humanitarian disciplines including Oriental studies the Reale Accademia published this elegant booklet with relatively new samples of Sanskrit Armenian Syriac Samaritan Arabic Turkish and Persian Aramaic Hieroglyphic Coptic Chinese Greek and Russian types in two sizes. As the introduction states the Academy's press was in reality the Tipografia Salviucci founded in 1747 and renamed in 1885. Description Small 4to 25.5 x 17.5 cm. First blank leaf title printed in red and black and within ornamental framed and 29 pp. printed on recto only text within decorative frames. Binding Original light grey wrappers printed in reddish brown bound in contemporary marbled boards flat spine with red label with gilt lettering. Condition Covers lightly rubbed at extremities spine a bit faded and worn with old paper repair to upper half wrappers a bit spotted; except some minimal light browning at the very edge of pages a fresh copy internally. R. Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, 1889. hardcover
PY Rare Books · Royaume-Uni1 650,00 $US≈ 1 471,24 €
