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PIONEERING WORK ON ZOROASTRIAN RELIGION
second edition 4to. [4], 580pp., 21 engraved plates (of which 5 folding), contemporary sprinkled pale calf, sides with a double gilt filler border, sometime rebacked with a new matching calf spine, spine panelled by raised bands, panels tooled in blind, handsome red and dark green morocco labels gilt, original endpapers reused, few minor scrapes on sides, nice fresh and handsome copy.
Thomas Hyde (1636 - 1703), English Orientalist and divine, pioneered the serious study of the Zoroastrian religion in the west. He was in 1658 appointed reader in Hebrew at Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1659 was appointed under-keeper of the Bodleian Library where he organised and published the third published catalogue of the their collections. He was a notable linguist with a mastery of Turkish, Arabic, Syriac, Persian, Hebrew, Malay and Chinese (learned from a Chinese Jesuit). He used Greek, Latin and Arabic, as well as what few Zoroastrian sources he could locate for this his… Read More

FINE MAPS & PLATES OF THE RIO DE LA PLATE REGION
Azara (1746-1821), a military officer and naturalist, was appointed to a delegation to settle the boundary dispute between Spain and Portugal in the Rio de la Plata region and spent the twenty years 1781 to 1801 in the region, during which time he studied and documented the area's geography, animals and native peoples. He published his Voyage in Madrid in Spanish after his return to Europe with 4 octavo volumes of text and this accompanying folio atlas volume. The atlas includes folding maps of South America, Paraguay and the Province of Buenos Aires, the Government of Buenos Aires, the Government of Paraguay and part of Chaco, and the Province of Chiquitos and Government of Matagroso and of Cuyaba; eight city plans and views, including a double-page plan and view of Buenos Aires, seven plates depicting animals, and four plates depicting birds.