First illustrated edition, with a frontispiece portrait of the author and a plate of music inserted at the end.
Not listed in Schwab.
Contemporary binding in half polished Havana calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, chain motifs and floral tools, saffron paper boards, marbled edges.
Joints split at foots and slightly at heads, a pleasant copy overall.
An important work by the renowned Austrian orientalist (1774–1856) devoted to ancient Persian poetry, containing a large number of extracts translated into German and an extensive index.
The work, dedicated to the great French orientalist Silvestre de Sacy, was carefully printed in Gothic type; the Persian translations are presented in two columns.
A handsome, large-margined copy in a period binding.