[Rarebooks] Offering: Berber Dictionary, 1844

Michael John Thompson mjt at mjtbooks.com
Mon Feb 12 01:41:16 EST 2007



VENTURE DE PARADISE, Jean-Michel;  Pierre Amédée Émilien Probe Jaubert, 
chevalier;  Emde François 
Jomard. 

Grammaire et Dictionnaire Abrégés de la Langue Berbère. Recueil de Voyages 
et Mémoires Publiée par la Société de Géographie. Tome Septieme.

Paris: Chez Arthus Bertrand, Libraire de la Societe. 1844.

First edition. Quarto, original printed wrappers. 236 pp. "Notice 
biographique sur Venture de Paradis", signed Jomard: p. [vii]-xvi./ 
"Itinéraires de l'Afrique septentrionale, avec des notions sur l'Atlas et 
le Sahara, par Venture de Paradis": p. [217]-236./ Forms the first part of 
the 7th volume of Recueil de voyages et mémoires publiée par la Société de 
géographie. Lacking the rear wrapper and half the wrapper from the upper 
spine; sewing broken at pp. 16, dampstain affecting the upper half of the 
first 16 leaves (pronounced on title leaf, fading away later); a good / 
very good copy.  The first edition of a rare and early Berber dictionary, 
with transcriptions in French, Berber and Arabic.

$550 USD

Terms: as usual.

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