Alphabetum Syro-Chaldaeum una cum Oratione Dominicali Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo Fidei

30 pp. Small 8vo, Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine.

Type specimen printed on the eve of the Napoleonic conquest of Italy, during which "there was an order from the French government for the confiscation of exotic language punches and matrices from the Propaganda to supply the Imprimerie Nationale" (Coakley). Uncommon Birrell & Garnett 241; Smitskamp 215; Moss 1052; Brunet I, 197; cf. Coakley, pp. 58-9.

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