SILVESTRE DE SACY (Antoine Isaac, baron). Grammaire arabe à l'usage des élèves de l'école spéciale des langues orientales vivantes. Paris, De l'Imprimerie impériale, 1810. 2 volumes in-8, half green basane, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets (period binding).
First edition of the most famous work by Baron Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), professor at the École des Langues Orientales and one of the masters of French Orientalism.
It features 8 (out of 10) fold-out tables and 8 engraved plates for the Arabic alphabet.
This Grammaire arabe, which has become a reference work, is the true foundation of the new French Orientalism, in spirit and method (En français dans le texte, n°221).
A fine copy.
Handwritten bookplate on upper flyleaf: Bibliothèque de M. le Baron de Guiraud Château de Villemartin près Limoux (Aude). Unspecified wet stamp on false titles.
Missing 2 folding tables. Volume II, small hole in a word on p. 87, and oxidation stain affecting pagination on pp. 29-30. Some foxing to plates.
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