Rudiments de la langue hindoui. - Analyse d'un monologue dramatique indien

First edition.

Contemporary half lemon calf binding, spine darkened and smooth, decorated with gilt quintuple fillets and garlands, black shagreen title label, rubbing to the spine and spine ends, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, a few nicks to the edges, contemporary binding.

Some light foxing, rubbing and small losses of paper at the corners of the boards, library shelfmark stamp to a flyleaf and the title page.

Only edition: despite the similarity of subject matter, this work should not be confused with the "Rudiments de la langue hindoustani" by the same author.

Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy (1794–1878) was a French orientalist and specialist of India. He studied Oriental languages under Silvestre de Sacy and, alongside him, was one of the founders of the Société asiatique in 1822. He was appointed to the chair of Indology at the École spéciale des Langues orientales in 1828 and was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1838.</p><p>Initially known for his studies on Islam and his translations from Arabic, Turkish and Persian, Garcin de Tassy became the first specialist of Hindustani in France.

Bound at the end is another work by the same author: "Analyse d'un monologue dramatique indien", printed in Paris at the Imprimerie nationale in 1850 (23 pp.), an extract from the Journal asiatique.