Alphabetum barmanorum about burmese characters
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2015-06-16
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| Sold for | 2200 SEK |
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| Estimate | 2 000-2 500 SEK |
BURMA. (CARPANIUS, MELCHIOR). Alphabetum barmanorum seu regni avesis. Editio altre emendatior. Romae (typis Sac. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide) 1787.
8:o. (4, first leaf blank), V-XVI, 1-64 pp. Text in Pali written in Burmese script within woodcut border throughout. 1 engraved folding plate.
Contemporary marbled wrappers, worn, defective spine. Title with larger dampstain after removed stamp.
Written by Melchior Carpanius (here revised by Cajetanus Mantegatius), with an introduction by the editor Johannes Christopher Amaduzzi. Second edition (first 1776) of the first work to be printed in Burmese characters.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
