From Sanskrit and Chinese, to Samaritan and Coptic

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Caratteri Orientali Esistenti nella Tipografia della R. Accad. dei Lincei

Publication: R. Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, 1889.

From Sanskrit and Chinese, to Samaritan and Coptic
[TYPOGRAPHY]. Caratteri Orientali Esistenti nella Tipografia della R. Accad. dei Lincei.
Published/created in: 1889

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Extremely rare catalogue of oriental types used by the press of one of the most important scientific academy. In great condition – and only one other copy traced (in California).

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Lovely “oriental” type samples from one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions.

Very rare: WorldCat traces only one copy, in Uni. California Santa Barbara. No copy traced in the Italian Union catalogue OPAC SBN.

In 1611 Galileo Galilei became a member of the Italian “Academy of the Lynx-Eyed”, founded just a few years before, in 1603, with a focus on natural sciences and mathematics.

In the late 19th c., the Accademia dei Lincei became “Reale”, growing into a famous centre of studies, which would soon host the greatest scholars, such as Pasteur, Einstein, Mommsen and others. As its programme was expanded with many humanitarian disciplines including Oriental studies, the Reale Accademia published this elegant booklet, with relatively new samples of Sanskrit, Armenian, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, Aramaic, Hieroglyphic, Coptic, Chinese, Greek and Russian types in two sizes.

As the introduction states, the Academy’s press was in reality the Tipografia Salviucci, founded in 1747 and renamed in 1885.

Item number

1670

 

Physical Description

Small 4to (25.5 x 17.5 cm). First blank leaf, title printed in red and black and within ornamental framed and [29] pp. printed on recto only, text within decorative frames.

Binding

Original light grey wrappers printed in reddish brown, bound in contemporary marbled boards, flat spine with red label with gilt lettering.

Condition

Covers lightly rubbed at extremities, spine a bit faded and worn with old paper repair to upper half, wrappers a bit spotted; except some minimal light browning at the very edge of pages, a fresh copy internally.

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