Author: ZENKER, THÉODOR JULIUS:
Title: Dictionnaire Turc - Arabe - Persan. Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch. Two parts in one volume. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Imprimerie de Bär & Hermann, 1866-7.
Description: . Folio. Pp. (ii) prospectus, x, 398; vi, pp. 399-980. Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt, rubbed. Original front wrapper with bound. First edition of a comprehensive and important dictionary by Zenker (1811-84), renowned German orientalist and translator. The dictionary is arranged alphabetically according to the Turkish word. Followed by phonetics, the French and German translations. Before the Turkish entry, the small letters a, t, and p indicate the Arabic, Turkish, Persian or Persian-Turkish origin of the word. Occasionally some light straining. Schwab 1127. Zaunmüller 388. Provenance: Copy of Gustaf Richard Raquette (1871-1945) and later of Gustaf Albert Ahlbert (1884-1943). Both were Swedish linguists and missionaries in Eastern Turkestan. With their signatures on front wrapper. Stamps of Svenska Missionsförbundet (The Swedish Missionary Association).

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