Armand-Pierre CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL
Grammaire arabe vulgaire, pour les dialectes d'Orient et de Barbarie
Dondey-Dupré|Paris 1833|15.5 x 23.4 cm|Broché
Second edition, the first having been published in 1824 (cf. Gay 3389).
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, in blue paper with a plain temporary cover, and a title label affixed at the head of the spine.
Some minor foxing, a faint water stain in the right margin of a few leaves at the end of the volume.
At the age of twenty, Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval (1795–1871) departed for Constantinople as an interpreter. He travelled through Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon, and served as a dragoman in Aleppo in 1820.
Upon returning to France, he was appointed to the chair of colloquial Arabic at the École des Langues Orientales, and succeeded his father in 1833 a
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