DAVIDS, ARTHUR LUMLEY
Kitab al-'alim al-nani' fi tahsil sarf wa nahu turki. Grammaire Turke: précédée d'un Discours Préliminaire sur la Langue et la Littérature des Nations Orientales; avec un Vocabulaire volumineux, des dialogues, un recueil d'extraits en prose et en vers, et enrichie de plusieurs planches lithograpiques extraites de manuscrits anciens et modernes. Traduite de l'Anglais par Madame Sarah Davids, mère de l'auteur.
A Londres, A Paris, A Bourdeaux., W. H. Allen, John Taylor, Hatchard, W. Straker, Black and Armstrong; Mme. Dondey Dupré; Lawalle Neveu., 1836. 4to. X, (6), LXXIX, 214 pp. (2) and 5 leaves of lithographic plates, printed at one side after arab mss., and including one blue-green paper leaf printed in gold in arab characters. Printed in French, Arab and also with Chinese characters. Modern black cloth, new endpapers, gilt edges. Famous Turkish grammar by Arthur Lumley Davids (1811-32), an English orientalist/linguist and translated into French by his mother Sarah Davids. Deluxe copy with dedication to Sultan Mahmud Kahn printed in gold on green paper in Ottoman Turkish. Contains also a printed dedication to Louis Philippe, roi de France, this leaf with a stamped number. Endpapers with some weak foxing spots, otherwise internally a very good copy. Early English Litographes, arabic typography.
Boeknummer: 45415
€ 675.80