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GIORGI, ANTONIO AGOSTINO Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley This vast compendium of Tibetan studies
ALPHABETUM TIBETANUM, Dated 1762 Collections in Latin is the most tangible legacy of the
PRAEMISSA EST DISQUISITIO QUA Capuchin mission at Lhasa which flourished
DE VARIO LITERARUM AC REGIONIS Provenance between 1715 and 1745. Two of the Friars,
NOMINE, GENTIS ORIGINE, MORIBUS, Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute Francisco Orazio della Penna di Billi, who
SUPERSTITIONE, AC MANICHAEISMO Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute published an accurate description of the
FUSE DISSERITUR. ROME: TYPIS SACRAE Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867- country, and Cassiano di Macerata, sent
CONGREGATIONIS DE PROPAGANDA FIDE 1934), by repute materials back to Rome which were utilised
- two parts in one volume, title printed in red Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893- by Georgi (1711-1797).
and black with blue printed etched device. 1949), by repute
29cm x 22cm (11.1/2in x 8.5/8in). Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975)
£800 - 1,200 Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by
descent
HK$7,800 - 12,000
CNY7,100 - 11,000

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