[ARABIC / ORIENTALISM / LINGUISTICS] Grammaire Arabe a l'usage des eleves de l'ecole speciale des langues orientales vivantes, avec figures.= Al-tuhfat al-saniyah fî ilm al-Arabiyah. Un Traité de la prosodie et de la métrique des Arabes. 2 volumes set

ANTOINE ISAAC SILVESTRE DE SACY, (1758-1838), L'Imprimerie Royal, Paris, 1831. COMPLETE TITLE: [ARABIC / ORIENTALISM / LINGUISTICS] Grammaire Arabe a l'usage des eleves de l'ecole speciale des langues orientales vivantes, avec figures.= Al-tuhfat al-saniyah fî ilm al-Arabiyah. Corrigee et augmentee à laquelle on a joint Un Traité de la prosodie et de la métrique des Arabes. 2 volumes set Original brown quarter leather bdg., five raised bands to spine; title andvolume numbers lettered in gilt. An old label on the spine. Professionally repaired spine. Slight foxing on pages. Overall a very good set. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In French. 2 volumes set: ([xxxiv] [numbered mistakenly], 608 p., viii numbered folded plates; [xii], 697 p.). Early original corrected and enlarged (second) French edition, of this comprehensive orientalist Arabic grammar of the 19th century with its attractive plates, written by French linguist De Sacy, fifteen years later he became the first and only professor of Ar