Author: SAVARY, CLAUDE ÉTIENNE:
Title: Grammaire de la langue arabe vulgaire et littérale; ouvrage posthume de M. Savary, traducteur du Coran, augmenté de quelques contes arabes, par l'éditeur. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1813.
Description: . 4to. Pp. xii, 536. Contemporary marbled boards, calf spine printed in gilt, rubbed. First edition of an important early Arabic dialect grammar. Posthumously published by Louis-Mathieu Langlès, curator of manuscripts at the Imperial Library. It is printed with the fine types of Savary de Brèves and includes a Latin translation. For the first time in print a substantial part of "Thousand and One Nights" in Arabic has been included. At end an additional part about Sindbad the Sailor by Langlès which in 1814 was published separately with the title "Les voyages de Sind-Bád le Marin, et la Ruse des femmes". Claude-étienne Savary (1750-88) was a pioneer of Egyptology and translator of the Qur'an. De Sacy 2804. Gay 1738. Zenker BO i, 244. Vater p.28.

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