Publications of Abraham Gabai

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed by Abraham Gabai

  • The capitulations and articles of peace betvveene the Maiestie of the King of England, Scotland, France, & Ireland &c. and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, as they haue beene augmented, & altered in the times of euery embassadour: and as novv lately in the city of Adrianople in the month of Ianuary 1661 they haue beene augmented, renevved, & amplifyed vvith diverse additionall articles, & priuiledges, vvhich serue tovvards the maintenance of a vvell grounded peace, & securitie of the trade, & trafficke of his Maiesties subiects in the Leuant, by his Excellency Heneage Earle of VVinchilsea embassadour extraordinary from his Maiestie Charles the Second King of Great Brittaine, France, & Ireland to Sultan Mahomet Han the most puislant [sic] prince, & Emperour of the Turkes. Set forth, & published by Paul Ricaut Esquire secretary to his Excellencie the lord embassadour. Licensed by his Excellencies speciall order. Printed at Constantinople: by Abraham Gabai chaf nahat, in the yeare of our Lord 1663. ESTC No. R8505. Grub Street ID 128672.