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

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 inscriptions of Tchéhel-Minar; Memoir on the medals of the kings of Persia, of the Sassanid dynasty; Memoir on the monuments and inscriptions of Kirmanschah or Bi-Sutoun, in Kurdistan. This publication concludes with the Persian translation of the work on the history of Persia by Mirkhond (author from the end of the 9th century) which signifies: The garden of purity or history of the prophets, kings and caliphs. The studies by the orientalist and linguist Silvestre de Sacy attest to as much erudition as sagacity; he would be named in 1806 professor of Persian at the Collège de France and administrator of the École spéciale des langues orientales also at the Collège de France. He powerfully contributed to the development of studies and knowledge of oriental languages and civilizations, particularly Persian.