GARCIN DE TASSY, JOSEPH HÉLIODORE SAGESSE VERTU: - Rudimens de la langue hindoustani, a l'usage des élèves de l'école royale et spéciale des langues orientales vivantes. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1829. AND: APPENDICE aux rudimens de la langue hindoustani, contenant, outre quelques additions a la grammaire, des lettres hindoustani originales, accompagnées d'une traduction et de fac-simile. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1833.

. 4to. Pp. 99, (1); 68. With seven engraved plates. Uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards, wide margins, rubbed and chipped at extremities. Some minor staining. First editions. Garcin de Tassy, French orientalist who devoted his life to the study of Urdu. He spent fifty years reading and writing about the language and its literature. He was one of the founders and later president of the Société Asiatique. He compiled these two works to be used by students learning the Urdu language. The first work is an outline grammar and the second comprises twenty-one letters written with different styles of composition, and in different scripts (nasta'liq, shikasteh and nagari). Ref.: De Sacy 2956. Vater p.168.

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