SCHEIDIUS, Jacob.
Glossarium Arabico-Latinum manuale maximam partem en Lexico Goliano excerptum. Editio altera.
Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1787. 4to (26 x 21 cm). Text set in two columns, with Arabic characters throughout. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides. [6], 286 pp.
€ 2,500
Second edition of an abridged version of Golius's ground-breaking Arabic lexicon Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653). It is prepared by Jacob Scheidius (1754-1801) with the assistance of his better-known brother, Everard Scheidius (1742-1794), professor of oriental languages at Harderwijk.
About 20 leaves with a minor waterstain in the foot margin, otherwise in very good condition. Lambrecht 470; Schnurrer 126; Smitskamp, Philologia Orientalis 316.
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