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 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.