[Rarebooks] FS: Important Latin/Persian edition of Persian poet Hafiz. Vienna: 1771

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Hafiz (or, Hafez). SPECIMEN POESEOS PERSICAE... Sive Odae Sexdecim ex Initio Divani Depromptae, Nunc Primum Latinitate Donatae, cum Metaphrasi Ligata, & Soluta, Paraphrasi Item ac Notis. Vindobonae (i.e. Vienna): Typographeo Kaliwodiano. 1771. 8vo. xlviii,162,(2)pp. Text in Persian and Latin throughout. With the final leaf of errata. Cont. black straight grain morocco, covers and spine gilt ruled. Marbled endpapers. A.e.g. With the bookplates of Mathew Wilson and the famous British woman book collector Francis Mary Richardson Currer.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A lovely copy of the first translation of the poems of Hafiz into Latin, with extensive scholarly notes. This work was translated and edited by Charles de Revicksky (Karoly Reviczky) 1737-1791, Hungarian scholar and important 18th century book collector whose library was purchased en bloc by the 2nd Earl of Spencer. An English translation of this work, by John Richardson, appeared in 1774 under the title, A SPECIMEN OF PERSIAN POETRY.

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