First Type Specimen of Malayalam

Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum

9 folding charts. xxviii, 100 pp. Small 8vo, Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1772. First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine.

First type specimen of the Grantha or Malabar alphabet, now most frequently known as Malayalam Birrell & Garnett 16; de Gubernaties 329; Smitskamp PO 207; Brunet I, 197.

Item #212798       Price: $1,250.00