Author: SILVESTRE DE SACY, [Antoine Isaac].
Title: Mémoires sur les antiquités de la Perse et sur l’histoire des Arabes avant Mahomet.Paris, Eugène Duverger & Jean-Joseph Marcel, Imprimerie Impériale, [1808-1809]. Large 4to (22 x 27.5 cm). With 4 tables. Later red half morocco, marbled sides, title in gold on spine.
Description: [6], 47-58, 483-782 pp.Offprints from vols. 47 & 48 of the Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres with separately printed title-page. The four "mémoires" that make up the first item were lectures delivered in the years 1787 to 1791, but published for the first time in 1793; the second, much longer item, a lecture delivered on 5 April 1785, includes long extracts in Arabic from Masoudi, Sirat Alresoul, Kitab Aldjouman, Tabari and others.Shelfmark on spine, unobtrusive blind library stamp on title-page & following 2 leaves. Owner’s inscription of Col. S. B. Miles on front free endpaper, and his wife’s presentation bookplate (to Bath Public Reference Library) on front paste-down.l Wilson 197.

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