Hottinger (Johann Heinrich). Promtuarium; sive, Bibliotheca orientalis: exhibens catalogum, sive, centurias aliquot, tam authorum, quam librorum Hebraicorum, Syriacorum, Arabicorum, Aegyptiacorum, Aethiopicorum, etc., Heidelberg: Adrian Wyngaerden, 1658, pp. [8] 332 [i.e. 328] 46, engraved vignette to title-page, Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac types used throughout, ink-stain to title-page, a few faint marginal damp-stains, quires 2I-2P browned, a few other marks, later half vellum, 4to (20.2 x 15.8 cm) (Qty: 1) VD17 12:128994P. First edition of the first printed bibliography of Middle Eastern literature, based mainly on the manuscript collection of Dutch Arabist Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) and today considered 'a huge step forward in the knowledge which European scholars had of texts circulating in the Middle East’ (Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 46).
Hottinger (Johann Heinrich). Promtuarium; sive, Bibliotheca orientalis: exhibens catalogum, sive, centurias aliquot, tam authorum, quam librorum Hebraicorum, Syriacorum, Arabicorum, Aegyptiacorum, Aethiopicorum, etc., Heidelberg: Adrian Wyngaerden, 1658, pp. [8] 332 [i.e. 328] 46, engraved vignette to title-page, Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac types used throughout, ink-stain to title-page, a few faint marginal damp-stains, quires 2I-2P browned, a few other marks, later half vellum, 4to (20.2 x 15.8 cm) (Qty: 1) VD17 12:128994P. First edition of the first printed bibliography of Middle Eastern literature, based mainly on the manuscript collection of Dutch Arabist Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) and today considered 'a huge step forward in the knowledge which European scholars had of texts circulating in the Middle East’ (Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 46).
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