[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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