HERBELOT, Bathélemy d’.- La bibliothèque orientale, ou dictionnaire universel contenant generalement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l’Orient. Leurs histoires et traditions veritables ou fabuleuses. Leurs religions, sectes et politique. Leurs gouvernement, loix, coûtumes, mœurs, guerres, & les révolutions de leurs empires...- Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires, M. DC. XCVII. [1697].- [32], 1059, [1] p.; 37 cm.- E. Original edition of the monumental work of Barthélemy d’Herbelot (1625-1695), orientalist scholar and French polyglot, born in Paris, speaking and writing, among other languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Persian and Turkish. In 1692, d'Herbelot was appointed Professor of Syriac at the Collège de France. Edition published two years after the author’s death by another orientalist, Antoine Galland (1646-1715), considered the first major contribution and reference source for the modern “Encyclopédie de l’Islam”. Several oval stamps, slightly faded, from Livraria Vieira Pinto and Ex Libris Vieira Pinto, on the title page, dedication, beginning and end of the text, etc. Slightly trimmed copy, with occasional light browning and traces of wormholes. Contemporay binding, full sheepskin, worn with wormholes. Brunet, II, col. 664. Querard, IV, p. 82.