Literature & Linguistics

SA'DI SHIRAZI and Jan van DUISBERG (translator). De Perssiaansche roosen-gaard: Beplant met vermaaklijke historiën, scharp-zinnige redenen, nutte regelen, en leerrijke sin-spreuken. Voor omtrent vierhonderd jaaren in t Perssiaans bescheeven ... ; Doch onlangs uit de selve spraak in t Hoogduyts overgeset ... door Mr. Adamum Olearium, Die daar by gevoegd heeft de aartige fabelen of verdigtselen van Lokman; als ook eenige treffelijke Arabische spreuken. Alles vertaalt door J:V: Duisberg.
Amsterdam, T. Houthaak for J. Rieuwertsz. and J. Hendriksz., 1654. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, 12 full-page engraved plates, 11 decorated woodcut initials of the same series, and 7 woodcut tailpieces. Early 19th-century gold-tooled half calf. [24], 432 pp. Full description

SA'DI SHIRAZI and Stephen SULIVAN (translator). Select fables from Gulistan, or the bed of roses. Translated from the original Persian of Sadi.
London, J. Ridley, 1774. 8vo. Modern half calf (period style), gold-tooled spine. V, [1 blank], 139, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SANCTA CLARA, Abraham à. Huy! und Pfuy! der Welt. Huy, oder Anfrischung zu allen schönen Tugenden. Pfuy oder Abschreckung von allen schändlichen Lastern. Durch unterschiedliche sittliche Concept, Historien, und Fabeln vorgestellt. Worinnen der Poet, Prediger, und waserley Standes-Personen für ihren Kram etwas finden können.
Nuremberg, Christoph Weigel; Würzburg, Martin Frantz Hertzen, 1707. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page printed in red and black, and 100 engraved emblems in the text (measuring 10.5 x 12 cm). Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine, and a paper shelfmark label at the foot. [10], 200, [4] pp. & 100 ll. Full description

SAPPHO [=Vincenzo Maria IMPERIALE]. La Faoniade. Inni ed odi di Saffo tradotti dal testo Greco in metro Italiano da S.I.P.A.
Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1801. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. [2], VIII, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SAVARY, (Nicolas) Claude Étienne. Brieven over Egypte.
Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, 1788-1789. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 numbered engraved folding plates, including maps of Egypt and northern Egypt, a plan of Alexandria, and a cross-section of the Great pyramid. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines and binding edges. XVI, 446, [1], [1 blank]; XVI, 364, [2 blank], [1], [1 blank]; “XIV” [=XXIV], 390, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SAVARY, Jacques. (= Jacques TIMENT). Album hipponae sive hippodromi leges. Ad Christianissimum et invictissimum Galliae et Navarrae regem Ludovicum XIV deo-datum.
Caen, Claudius Le Blanc, 1662. 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. 19th-century marbled paper over boards, red sprinkled edges. [6], 2, 72 pp. Full description

SCARLATINI, Ottavio. Homo et eius partes figuratus & symbolicus, anatomicus, rationalis, moralis, mysticus, politicus, & legalis, collectus et explicatus cum figuris.
Augsburg & Dillingen, Johann Caspar Bencard, 1695. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large folio (37 x 23 cm). With a finely engraved emblematic frontispiece by the Augsburg engraver Leonhard Heckenauer (1655-1704), 2 title-pages with the same large engraved brooding chicken emblem and 42 engraved emblems in decorative cartouches in the text (plate size mostly 14 x 13 cm, but that on p. 232 of vol. 1 3.5 x 8.5 cm) perhaps also by Heckenauer. Contemporary vellum. [52], 342, [44]; [28], 249, [29] pp. including the frontispiece. Full description

SCHULTENS, Albert. Institutiones ad fundamenta linguæ Hebrææ.
Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár, Klausenburg), Sándor (Alexander) Szathmári Pap, 1743. 4to. Set in roman and italic types with extensive Hebrew, incidental fraktur, Greek (2 sizes) and Arabic, and one 3-letter word in Samaritan. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled tanned sheepskin, each board with the Diesbach Belleroche coat of arms, probably a son of Nicolas de Diesbach Belleroche (1668-1735) in Switzerland. [30], 501, [84], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SCHULTZE, Benjamin. "Liber Scripturae Balabandu". [Manuscript in Marathi].
[Madras, ca. 1730]. Small 8vo (11.5 x ca. 16 cm). Contemporary (Dutch?) floral "brocade paper" wrapper, with the Latin title on the verso of the upper wrapper. 6 ll. Full description

SEBASTIANI, Pietro de’. Nuovo metodo, che facilita la lingua Toscana disteso con regole grammaticali, ...
Rome, Paolo Moneta, 1683. Small 12mo (14 x 8 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers. [4], 47, [1 blank] pp. Full description