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VIGUIER, Pierre Francois.
Elemens de la Langue Turque, ou tables analytiques de la langue turque usuelle, avec leur developpement.
Constantinople, Imprimerie du Palais de France, 1790. 4to, half title, errata leaf, contemporary roan backed boards, corners vellum, spine flat and gilt, red lettering label.
This is the fourth book known to have been printed at the French embassy at Pera, where Choiseul-Gouffier established a press in 1787. Viguier was in Constatinople from 1783 to 1802 as apostolic prefect. His grammar was the first to distinguish in Turkish the exclusive use of either guttural or palatal vowels within one word.
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