WASER, Kaspar (1565-1625). Institutio Linguae Syrae. Leiden: Franciscus Raphelengius at the Plantin Press, 1594. 4° (201 x 150mm). Woodcut title device. (Without the final blank, browned, wormhole in the outside margin of some gatherings.) Contemporary vellum, sides ruled in blind, spine lettered in manuscript (lacking ties, lacking the rear free endpaper, some wear and soiling). Provenance: Marcus Hasse (title inscription) -- Hieronymus Hasse (title inscription) -- a 19th-century reader (title signature; bibliographical note on the free endpaper).

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WASER, Kaspar (1565-1625). Institutio Linguae Syrae. Leiden: Franciscus Raphelengius at the Plantin Press, 1594. 4° (201 x 150mm). Woodcut title device. (Without the final blank, browned, wormhole in the outside margin of some gatherings.) Contemporary vellum, sides ruled in blind, spine lettered in manuscript (lacking ties, lacking the rear free endpaper, some wear and soiling). Provenance: Marcus Hasse (title inscription) -- Hieronymus Hasse (title inscription) -- a 19th-century reader (title signature; bibliographical note on the free endpaper).

FIRST EDITION of this Syriac primer by the Zurich Orientalist and theologian Kaspar Waser. Adams W-25.