ORIENTALISM OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. Eighteenth-century TYPOGRA - Lot 279

ORIENTALISM OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. Eighteenth-century TYPOGRAPHY. Lot of 2 documents printed during the second half of the 18th century. -AMADUZZI, G. C.] Alphabetum syro-chaldaeum : una cum Oratione dominicali, Salutatione angelica, et Symbolo fidei. Rome, Typis Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1797. Unbound, (1)-30 pp. one folding page of Syriac characters in black. Work in Latin and Syro-Chaldean, printed and paginated in the Arabic reading direction, from right to left. Beautiful woodcut vignette in black on the title (of the Congregation). Very rare. Only one copy in the CCFr (BnF). Special typeface copy, printed in Rome just before Bonaparte's conquest of Italy, during which "the French government ordered the confiscation of the matrices and punches for foreign language typefaces held by the Congregation of Propaganda, in order to place them at the disposal of the Imprimerie Nationale" (Coakley). Brunet I, 197. -ENCYCLOPÉDIE DIDEROT. [Characters and alphabets of dead and living languages]. [Paris, ca. 1763]. 25 black etchings (24 x 36 cm) printed on laid paper, in sheets (slight marginal wetness). Stamp S J ALOYS CANTILIAC. Set of typographic plates published in Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.... They show the alphabet characters of several ancient Eastern languages (Hebrew and Syriac), as well as Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Ethiopian, Abyssinian, Coptic, Russian, Armenian, Georgian, Bengali, Japanese, and the keys to Chinese characters. Enclosed: "Journal asiatique". 1823. Two issues.