Toulouse: Pierre Bosc, 1648 [1647]. First edition. Two parts in one volume (Part 2 with separate title-page dated 1647, and separate pagination and signatures). Title-pages with woodcut vignette; decorative initials and headpieces throughout. Later vellum, with morocco lettering-piece to spine and simple decorative gilt rolls at head and foot. [16]..... More
Romae [Rome]: Typis & impensis Sac. Congr. de Propag. Fide, MDCXXXI [1631]. First edition. [8] 72 75 [ie. 77; nos. 71–72 repeated; 45 misnumbered as 54] [3] p. The first Malay-Latin, Latin-Malay dictionary, an important tool for the missionaries in the Malay peninsula. The “Dictionarium Malaico-Latinum et Latino-Malaicum,” published..... More
Stockholm: in Verlegung des Autoris, 1730. Illustrated with 21 engraved and woodcut illustrations, maps, and tables, several folding, and the folding Tabula Polyglotta on two folding leaves. The illustrations and maps were designed by Strahlenberg and Ferdinand Hilfreich Frisch. First edition. Provenance: Gyula Ortutay. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in..... More