Author: Hyde, Thomas.
Title: Syntagma dissertationum quas olim auctor doctissimus Thomas Hyde ... separatim edidit. Accesserunt nonnulla ejusdem opuscula hactenus inedita; necnon de ejus vita scriptisque, [prolegomena]. Cum appendice de lingua sinensi, aliisque linguis orientalibus U
Description: Oxonii: E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1767. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Two volumes. I: [viii], xxxiv, [vi], xxii, 151, 108, [xviii], xxviii, 308, [vii]pp.; II: [xxviii]. I: []4, a4-e4, []2, b4-d4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Kk4, Ll6 (- Ll6 blank), A4-Z4, Aa4-Uu4; II: []8, b4, c2, BB4, C4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Yyy4, Zzz2 (- Zzz2 blank). Volume I in three parts. First edition. Contemporary calf. With a folding frontispiece portrait of Hyde, engraved folding coat-of-arms, 3 plates (2 folding), 14 engraved tables (12 folding), and folding map. Plates and tables depict oriental scripts and other aspects of oriental life. The plates are engraved by Michael Burghers. Wing H3877; ESTC T84642; Diba Collection, A Persian Bibliography, p. 84; DNB X, 402; Brunet III, 393; Houzeau- Lancaster no. 1080 (Syntagma: 1767) & no. 12422 (Ulug Beg) & 6929 (Mohammed Al Tizini). With the armorial bookplate of the Cope family, with their motto, "aequo adeste animo." Good.

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