Élémens de la langue turque, ou Tables analytiques de la langue turque usuelle, avec leur développement, dédiés au Roi [...] par M. Viguier, préfet apostolique des Établissemens de la Congrégation de la Mission dans le Levant.

4to: xxxii-462-[1-1 bl.] pp. (toned, minor spotting, a few tiny wormtracks).

Contemp. blind-ruled leather, gilt spine with 3 raised bands, red edges (rubbed, sm. def.). Good copy.

First edition of this Turkish grammar printed on the grounds of the French embassy at Pera, where a printing press was established in 1787 by Count Choiseul-Gouffier. The Arabic types were supplied from Basel. The oriental scholar Viguier (1745-1821) was apostolic prefect at Constantinople from 1783 to 1802.
Ref. Atabey 1290. - Blackmer 1732.