Alter, Franz Carl. 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.

$1,616.00

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.

References

Giese 2233. Wurzbach I, 16f. De Backer/S. I, 214, 15.

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