[DELISLE DE SALE, JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE]:

Histoire d'Assyrie, ou histoire des monarchies de Ninive, de Babylone, et d'Ecbatane. Two volumes. Paris, avec approbation & privilegie de Roi, 1780.

. Pp. xlviii, 332, (4); 300. Text within woodcut border. With one folding engraved map, four folding engraved plates and two folding engraved tables. Contemporary full calf, gilt spines with five raised bands, worn, hinges weak, spine ends chipped, marbled endpapers and edges. Rare first edition. Delisle de Sale (1741-1816) was a controversial French philosopher renowned for his "De la philosophie de la nature". Interesting work on the Assyrian empire with attractive engravings of Babylon and the Kaaba in Mecca. The two large tables are titled: "Chronologie des souverains de Ninive, de Babylone et d'Ecbatane" and " Tableau des variations entre les anciens historiens ... de l'Assyrie, depuis Ninus jusqu'à la Mort d'Astiage". A second edition was published in 1782 with a slightly different title ("Histoire de l'empire Assyrien"). Barbier i, 655.

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NORBERG, MATTHIAS / NORRMANN, JOHANNES (Resp.):

Dissertatio de Panificio Orientali ex ore Behenami Episcopi chaldaei. Lund, Berlingianis, 1808.

. 4to. Pp. 8. Disbound. A dissertation about Oriental breadmaking according to the Chaldaic Bishop Joseph Behenam. Marklin 126.

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NORBERG, MATTHIAS:

Stellae Nasaraeorum ®ones ex sacro Gentis codice. Parts I-V. Lund, Berlingianis, 1811.

. 4to. Five parts. Text in Syriac and Latin. Pp. (ii),12; 10; (ii) 11-20; (ii) 21-28; (ii) 29-38. Disbound. Four parts devoted to the stars of the Nazareans.The four respondents are: Olof Svanander; Andr. Holm; Olof J. Bolmeer; Johan Chr. Hesselgren and P.N. Block. Pallis, Mandaean Bibliography, p.129.

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