Qawa'id al-Tarjuman (treatise on translation), by Khalifa Efendi, in Arabic, French and Ottoman Turkish, first edition in this form, printed by the Bulaq press [Egypt (Cairo), 1266 AH (1850 AD)]

Qawa'id al-Tarjuman (treatise on translation), by Khalifa Efendi, in Arabic, French and Ottoman Turkish, first edition in this form, printed by the Bulaq press [Egypt (Cairo), 1266 AH (1850 AD)]

single volume, complete, printed in Arabic, Turkish and French, mostly in three columns, small mark to colophon on final leaf, else clean and crisp condition, 4to (310 by 210 mm.); contemporary marbled boards, backed in morocco, outer edges worn

Part of a series of French translations printed by the Bulaq press under the patronage of King Charles V, this being a treatise on the translation of expressions and phrases in the three languages of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and French.

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