Large 8vo. French & Arabic text, li, [1], 458 pp., +4 pages Introduction in Arabic by the author, title in Arabic & French, modern half-calf with marbled boards, new endpapers, original interior, small marginal tear to French title page without any loss, otherwise copy clean inside and in very good condition, Proverbes et Dictons du Peuple Arabe, Matériaux pour servir à la Connaissance des Dialectes Vulgaires Series, Volume I, E. J. Brill, Leiden & Maisonneuve & co, Paris, 1883.

Synopsis

The first volume of a project entitled “Proverbes et dictons du peuple arabe, materiaux pour servir à la connaissance des dialectes vulgaire, recueillis, traduits et annotées par Carlo Landberg.” This is the only volume which was published on that project and contains 200 proverbs explained and translated into French by Landberg. For this research on the popular proverbs in the Sidon region of Lebanon, Landberg received a Doctorate from Leipzig University. He edited the “Diwan of Abi Muhjen al-Thakafi” in 1886, and the “Diwan of Zouheir Bin Abi Salma” in 1889. Landberg also published in 1883 a bibliography of Arabic manuscripts kept in a private library in Medina, which was subsequently acquired by Leiden University. His most important work was his study on the local dialects in Southern Arabia, which was published by Brill in Leiden in 1901-1913. In later years he wrote several studies on the Arabic language, and the dialects of ‘Anazah Beduins.