Proverbia Communia Syriaca. As contained in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ... volume the fifth
London: Trubner & Co., 1871. 8vo, 3 p.l., [197]-463, [1], xxxvii, [1], 16 (List of the members..., 1871), 56 (ads), [16] ads (including an 8-p. Quaritch catalogue offering Art Books); 10 plates (from unrelated articles), original buff printed wrappers bound in at the back, later half brown morocco, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine, t.e.g.; some scuffing, but very good. Burton's article appears on pages 338-367, and is printed in Roman and Syriac types. Penzer, p. 214: "The article was reprinted as Appendix II in Vol. I of Unexplored Syria, 1872." Casada 165. Item #30171
Price: $500.00
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