Arabia, 1633

Gabriel Sionita:

Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia.

Amsterdam, apud Joannen Janssonium, 1633. 12mo. 1-269, 280-298 pp. (Complete, irregular pagination.) Pagination includes engraved title.

Contemporary velum, yapp edges, gilt device of Arvid Posse on front cover, bookplate of G. Gson Wennerberg.

"This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca, and Aleppo" (Blackmer 1544, note).

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