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Elemens de la langue Turque.

Stock Code 105434

Constantinople, Imprimiere du Palais de France, 1790

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First and only edition of this Turkish grammar printed in the grounds of the French embassy at Pera, where a printing press was established in 1787 by Count Choiseul-Gouffier. Little is known about the activity of the press but several titles are known to have been printed there, these were mostly military or scientific in nature and the Arabic types used were supplied from Basel.

The oriental scholar Viguier (1745-1821) was apostolic prefect at Constantinople from 1783 to 1802 and was the first to distinguish between guttural and palatal vowels in the Turkish language.

First (and only) edition, 8vo, xxii, 461 pp., [1], including half-title, plus the errata leaf at end, printed in French and Ottoman Turkish, some very slight dusting and scattered stains, overall clean and crisp internally; bound in contemporary Ottoman leather over boards, covers ruled in blind, spine gilt in compartments with flora motif, spine and extremities lightly rubbed, a good copy.

Atabey 1290 and Blackmer 1732.
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Elemens de la langue Turque.

VIGUIER, Pierre Francoise.

Stock code: 105434

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