Antoine Isaac, Baron SILVESTRE DE SACY
Mémoires sur diverses antiquités de la Perse, et sur les médailles des rois de la dynastie des Sassanides Suivis de l'histoire de cette dynastie, traduite du persan de MIRKHOND
Imprimerie Nationale exécutive du Louvre|à Paris 1793|20.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 9 plates (medals, inscriptions).
Full jasper paper binding, smooth spine, black shagreen title-label, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Trace of dampstain to upper margin of 3 folding plates, and to left margin of the first, otherwise fresh throughout. Faint trace of dampstain to right margin of first leaves. Several leaves show traces of dampstain to upper margin over a few millimeters.
Archaeological studies composed of 4 memoirs that were read at sessions of the Académie des Inscriptions et de Belles-Lettres in the years 1787, 1788, 1790 and 1791: Memoir on the inscriptions and monuments of Nakschi-Roustam; Memoir on the Arabic and Persian inscri
Full jasper paper binding, smooth spine, black shagreen title-label, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Trace of dampstain to upper margin of 3 folding plates, and to left margin of the first, otherwise fresh throughout. Faint trace of dampstain to right margin of first leaves. Several leaves show traces of dampstain to upper margin over a few millimeters.
Archaeological studies composed of 4 memoirs that were read at sessions of the Académie des Inscriptions et de Belles-Lettres in the years 1787, 1788, 1790 and 1791: Memoir on the inscriptions and monuments of Nakschi-Roustam; Memoir on the Arabic and Persian inscri
€1,200