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OUSELEY, William (1767-1842). Persian Miscellanies: An Essay to Facilitate the Reading of Persian Manuscripts. London: Richard White, 1795.
4o (264 x 208 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 9 plates (some pale offsetting onto text.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with leafy gilt border, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt (joints slightly rubbed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate; purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 28 March 1958.
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest scholarly references on Perisian manusripts.
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FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest scholarly references on Perisian manusripts.