Herbelot, Barthelemy d'

FIRST EDITION, folio (390 x 235mm.), half-title, title printed in red and black, dedication, contemporary calf, spine gilt, 6A2 and 3 with corner cut away not affecting text, occasional slight spotting, spine ends repaired, joints cracking

Atabey 572; Ghani p.456

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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ONE OF THE LANDMARKS IN ARABIC STUDIES. This work, an abridgement of all the oriental books d'Herbelot had ever read, forms a sort of encyclopaedia of Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Aramaic, Syriac and Hebrew. D'Herbelot worked on his dictionary for thirty years only to die two years before its publication. The orientalist Antoine Galland saw to the completion and publication of this first edition of the Bibliothèque orientale in 1697, for which he wrote the preface and added supplementary material.