Ueber georgianische Litteratur.
Wien, Johann Thomas von Trattner, 1798.
8vo. 286 pp. With an engraved, folding plate of alphabet specimens. Contemporary marbled boards with printed spine label.
€ 1,500.00
First edition.
A discussion of manuscripts and printed books in the Georgian language (kartuli ena), today the official language of Georgia at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Pages 165-257 contain a bibliography of all published works by the author, the Silesian ex-Jesuit and classicist Alter (1749-1804).
Old library label to spine. A clean, well-preserved copy.
Giese 2233. Wurzbach I, 16f. De Backer/S. I, 214, 15.
