GIORGI, Antonio Agostino. Alphabetum Tibetanum .... praemissa est disquisitio qua de vario litterarum ac regionis nomine, gentis origine moribus, superstitione, ac manichaeismo fuse disseritur, Rome: typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1762. 2 parts in 2 volumes, 4 (280 x 211mm.), half titles, title in red and black with large woodcut device, 5 engraved plates only (of 6), woodcut illustrations, some full-page, headpieces and initials (half title and title of vol. I with short closed tear, paper flaw in O2 affecting one or 2 letters on verso but sense recoverable, some very light mainly marginal waterstaining, lightly spotted), contemporary marbled boards (first volume detached from boards, head and tail of spines chipped, extremities somewhat rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: "Frederici Mnsteri", old ownership inscription on half title, dated 1812. Second edition. (2)