VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN-FRANCOIS CHASSEBOEUF: - L'alfabet européen appliqué aux langues asiatiques. Simplification des langues orientales. L'hébreu simplifié par le méthode alfabétique. Paris 1826.

. Pp. xx, 510. With 13 engraved plates (many folding and of which one with tear). Four plates belong to the Hebrew part. Uncut copy in contemporary boards, title labels. Second edition. Some minor foxing. Comte de Volney (1757-1820), a French historian and philosopher, got interested in ancient languages as a student. In 1783 he travelled to Egypt and the Near East, and while staying at a monastery on mount Lebanon he learned Arabic. Included in 'Oeuvres de C.F. Volney. tome viii'. De Sacy, Catalogue de Bibl. ii, 2605 (first edition 1820).

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