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    By Louis de Poix; Parisian Capuchin Societe
    Paris   Claude Herissant
    7" by 4.5" [4], i-xlviii [1], 2-512 [2]pp
    The first edition of this scholarly edition of the psalms of David, the result of a collaboration of several orientalists, but generally credited to Louis de Poix.
    By Louis de Poix; Parisian Capuchin Societe

    1762 Nouvelle Version des Psaumes Faite sur le Texte Hebreu

    Paris   Claude Herissant
    7" by 4.5" [4], i-xlviii [1], 2-512 [2]pp
    The first edition of this scholarly edition of the psalms of David, the result of a collaboration of several orientalists, but generally credited to Louis de Poix.
    £120.00
    : 1kgs / : 863F13
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    First Edition, Leather Binding

    A French translation of the Psalms.

    A scarce first edition of the Psalms, revised from the original Hebrew text by Louis de Poix, and members of the Parisian Capuchin Societe.

    Produced by linguistics scholar Louis de Poix, the founder and president of the Parisian Capuchin Societe des Etudes Orientales. 

    With the bookplate of Ronald Lindsay to the front pastedown. Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay was a British civil servant and diplomat. He held several important posts, including Minister Plenipotentiary to France, Ambassador to Turkey and later Germany, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, before becoming the Ambassador to the United States. Lindsay married twice, first to Martha Cameron, and after her death, to Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt. 

    A smart copy of this first edition thus.

    Condition

    In a full calf binding, with gilt detailing to spine. Joints starting, with boards holding firm. Rubbing to board perimeters. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with light tidemark to tail of pages xxvi to 2.

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