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Arabic grammar to replace Erpenius's, followed by a lexicon to Al-Tha'alibi

ROORDA, Taco.
Grammatica Arabica, breviter in usum scholarum academicarum conscripta ... Adiuncta est brevis chrestomathia, edita et lexico explanata a P. Cool.
Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1835. 8vo. Text set in Roman and Arabic type. Contemporary quarter brown cloth, marbled paper sides, a paper label with the name of the author and the title printed in black on the spine. VIII, 298, [32] pp.
€ 750
First edition of an Arabic grammar by the Dutch professor of oriental languages Taco Roorda (1801-1874), followed by a lexicon based on the writer Al-Tha'alibi (961-1038) and an Arabic chrestomathy by P. Cool. Roordas grammar was published to replace a work by Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624) with the same title, which had been the first accurate European work on Arabic grammar.
With a bookshop ticket of J. G. Wolters, Groningen, mounted on the front pastedown. The cloth on the front joint has torn at the head of the book, front board nearly detached in the gutter between the title-page and the praefatio, but still connected by the sewing, a few small water stains on the spine. Otherwise in good condition. Lambrecht 869 & 871; Nat, De studie van Oostersche talen in Nederland, p. 145.
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