Lot 839
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SILVESTRE de SACY, A.I. Expose de la religion des druzes, tire des livres religieux de cette secte, et precede d'une introduction et de la vie du Khalife Hakem-Biamr-Allah. Paris, M. le Garde des Sceauxe, 1838. 2 vols. Or. printed blue wrps., uncut. (Some small pieces of wrps. gone on spine, bookblock vol. 1 broken, a bit foxed).
First edition of this rare work by the French linguist and Orientalist Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (1758 -1838). Sacy is regarded as the founder of Arabic study in France. - Atabey 1134. Not in Blackmer.€ 500
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