The antiquities of Persia and the history of the Arabs before Muhammad

Silvestre de Sacy, [Antoine Isaac]. Mémoires sur les antiquités de la Perse et sur l'histoire des Arabes avant Mahomet.

Paris, E. Duverger / J. J. Marcel, Imprimerie Impériale, [1808-1809].

Large 4to (220 x 274 mm). (6), 47-58, 483-782 pp. With 4 tables. Later red half morocco over marbled boards with gilt title to spine.

 1,800.00

Offprints from vols. 47 & 48 of the "Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres" with separately printed title-page. The four "mémoires" which make up the first piece were variously read in public between 1787 and 1791, but published for the first time in 1793; the second, much longer part, was first heard on 5 April 1785. Includes long extracts in Arabic from Masoudi, Sirat Alresoul, Kitab Aldjouman, Tabari, and others.

Shelfmark to spine, unobtrusive blind library stamp to title & following 2 leaves. Ownership inscription of Col. S. B. Miles to front free endpaper, and his wife's presentation bookplate (Bath Public Reference Library) to front pastedown.

References

Wilson 197.

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