LUDOLF, Hiob. Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum, ex omnibus libris impressis, non nullisque manuscriptis collectum; et cum docto quodam Aethiope relectum. Accesit authoris grammatica... London: Thomas Roycroft, 1661. 8o. Title printed in red and black, text in Aethopic and Roman character throughout, and occasionally Arabic and Hebrew (lacks two leaves before Grammaticae). Later calf antique (rubbing to spine and edges). FIRST EDITION, of the first Latin-Aethopic dictionary. Graesse IV:291. -- Sciagraphia historiae Aethiopicae, sive Regni Abessinorum, quod vulgo perperam Presbyteri Johannis vocatur... aliquando in lucem proditurae. Jena, 1676. Small 4o. (Some browning and staining). 19th-century quarter-cloth. Provenance: British Museum sale duplicate, 1787 (ink stamp on verso of title). FIRST EDITION. (2)

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LUDOLF, Hiob. Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum, ex omnibus libris impressis, non nullisque manuscriptis collectum; et cum docto quodam Aethiope relectum. Accesit authoris grammatica... London: Thomas Roycroft, 1661. 8o. Title printed in red and black, text in Aethopic and Roman character throughout, and occasionally Arabic and Hebrew (lacks two leaves before Grammaticae). Later calf antique (rubbing to spine and edges). FIRST EDITION, of the first Latin-Aethopic dictionary. Graesse IV:291. -- Sciagraphia historiae Aethiopicae, sive Regni Abessinorum, quod vulgo perperam Presbyteri Johannis vocatur... aliquando in lucem proditurae. Jena, 1676. Small 4o. (Some browning and staining). 19th-century quarter-cloth. Provenance: British Museum sale duplicate, 1787 (ink stamp on verso of title). FIRST EDITION. (2)

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