SAVARY, [Claude Etienne]

Title Grammaire de la langue Arabe vulgaire et littérale; ouvrage posthume de M Savary traducteur du Coran. Augementé de quelques contes arabes par l'éditeur.
Publisher A Paris de L'Imprimerie Impériale
Date 1813
Book ID 36187
First Edition  

Description

Claude Etienne Savary (1750 - 1788) was an orientalist, a pioneer of Egyptology and translator of the Qur'an or Koran. His Arabic (as spoken in Egypt) grammar was published posthumously.A very nice copy, clean and tight. Quarto. Nineteenth century library half-leather to buckram boards, raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers and fore-edges. No stamps or labels, shelf-number removed from spine tail. Half title in French and in Latin, both title pages (one in French, one in Latin) present, xii+536pp.. Used; Very Good
Price: £300.00