VENTURE DE PARADIS, Jean-Michel. Former Turk (sic) teacher. - Lot 195

VENTURE DE PARADIS, Jean-Michel. Former Turk (sic) teacher. Grammaire et Dictionnaire abrégés de la langue Berbère. Revised by Amédée Jaubert. Followed by : Itinéraires de l'Afrique septentrionale. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1844. In-4, [4] ff (2 titles, 2 faux-titres), XXIII-236 pp (continuous pagination). Long-grained red morocco, ribbed spine, gilt title and tomaison, ornate caissons, gilt framing to boards, canons of the 1830 Charter stamped on boards, gilt filets and irons on endpapers, moiré silk lining (ivory tabis) to endpapers, gilt edges (slight rubbing to corners, upper spine slightly tired, but a fine copy). Lexicon distributed in French, transcribed Berber, figurative Berber and Arabic. The second part develops the itineraries of Venture de Paradis (1739-1799), a diplomat and adventurer who was notably Bonaparte's translator into Arabic, with extensive information on populations and trade in North Africa at the end of the 18th century. In a magnificent Charter binding from Louis-Philippe's library. With the 1830 Charter coat of arms. Following the revolutionary episode of 1830, the Orléans shield was replaced for a time by the Constitutional Charter. The state was then a representation of the tables of the Law engraved with the "Constitutional Charter of 1830", framed by the regalia (royal crown, scepter and hand of justice), the Legion of Honor and flags (O.H.R. 2499 n°10). First part of the seventh volume of Recueil de voyages et de mémoires, published by the Société de Géographie, with title page addressed to Arthus Bertrand, 1844. AMAZIGHS. MAGHREB. EASTERN ARMY. 1830 CHARTER BINDING.