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75 - Persian Literature.- Sa'di (Abu 'Abd Allah Musharrif al-Di) Rosarium Politicum, sive Amoenum Sortis Humanæ Theatrum, translated by Georgius Gentius, text in Persian and Latin on facing pages, woodcut printer's device on title and initials, lacking final blank, title with ink markings and small rust-hole, light soiling to first and final f., some restoration to gutter to first few ff., ink annotation to foot of 3F3-4, first 2 gathering proud and working loose, few very minor wormholes to margins, water-staining at head, some light spotting, modern green half morocco, spine lightly browned, [STCN 089524616], folio, Amsterdam, Joannis Blaeu, 1651.
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Persian Literature.- Sa'di (Abu 'Abd Allah Musharrif al-Di) Rosarium Politicum, sive Amoenum Sortis Humanæ Theatrum, translated by Georgius Gentius, text in Persian and Latin on facing pages, woodcut printer's device on title and initials, lacking final blank, title with ink markings and small rust-hole, light soiling to first and final f., some restoration to gutter to first few ff., ink annotation to foot of 3F3-4, first 2 gathering proud and working loose, few very minor wormholes to margins, water-staining at head, some light spotting, modern green half morocco, spine lightly browned, [STCN 089524616], folio, Amsterdam, Joannis Blaeu, 1651. *** First complete edition of Sa'di's Gulistān or 'Rose-garden' of 1258, a popular work throughout the Ottoman and Mughal empires, and in Europe from the 17th century onwards. André Du Ryer had published a partial French translation in 1634, but the present edition, prepared by the German orientalist Georgius Gentius, prints the complete text in the original Persian together with Gentius's Latin translation.
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