french biberstein kazimirski (1 risultati)

8vo (145 x 228 mm). (4), 176 pp. Publisher's original printed blue wrappers. Includes additional Arabic-only and Arabic-French title-pages, printed in gilt and blue on yellow paper. First edition of the Arabic text (with the French translation on opposite pages) of the story of the slave girl Anis al-Jalis, a story from the Thousand and One Nights. - The Polish Arabist Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein (1808-87), "dragoman" (official interpreter and translator) of the French mission to the Levant, is best known for his translations of Arabic works into French, including the Qur'an (1840). - Spine a little chipped. Slight foxing throughout; additional title-pages stitched in loosely, else fine. - Chauvin V, p. 120, no. 58, 2. OCLC 978589479.