Biblical and Near Eastern languages
Collection of works
£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Robertson, James. Grammatica Linguae Hebraeae. Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour & Neill, 1758. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC T99741];
Sykes, Sir Percy. A History of Persia. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for, including 3 folding maps loose in end-pockets as issued, ink-stamps of the Midland Bank directors' library to front free endpapers;
Cureton, William. Remains of a Very Antient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto unknown in Europe, London: John Murray, 1859. First edition, 4to, original cloth, rebacked with endpapers renewed, lithographic frontispiece, Syriac text, partly unopened;
Lewis, Agnes Smith. Some Pages of the Four Gospels re-transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest, with a Translation of the Whole Text. London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1896. First edition, 4to, original cloth, photographic frontispiece, Syriac text, partly unopened, wear to joints and spine, covers sunned and cockled;
Lewis, Agnes Smith, & Margaret Dunlop Gibson. The Palestinian Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels. Re-edited from two Sinai MSS. and from P. de Lagarde's Edition of the "Evangeliarium Hierosolymitanum". London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1899. First edition, 4to, original cloth, Syriac text, photographic plate;
Gibson, Margaret Dunlop. An Arabic Version of the Epistles of St Paul to the Ephesians from a Ninth Century MS. in the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1894. First edition, 4to, later quarter cloth;
Davidson, Samuel. An Introduction to the Old Testament, Critical, Historical, and Theological. London: Williams and Norgate, 1862-3. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, mottling to covers;
Freytag, G. W. Lexicon Arabico-Latinum ex opere suo majore in usum Tironum excerptum. Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, 1837. 4to, later quarter cloth;
and 8 others, on Ethiopic, Assyrian, the Hittites, etc.