A Concise Grammar of the Arabic Language

First edition, first impression.  vi, 168, 4pp.  Brown cloth-covered boards with paper title label pasted to upper panel.  Brown endpapers.  12mo.  Cloth is a little worn, rounded on corners and spine ends, with a few tiny indentations on edges.  Text block edges toned, dusty and a little spotted.  Front hinge cracking.  Previous owner’s blind embossed stamp on the title page.  A little spotting and tanning at margins throughout else internally neat, clean and tight.  

Authored by the English scholar William Beamont, with assistance from the Egyptian scholar Sheikh Ali Mady El Barrany, his is a 19th century education text designed as a practical and accessible handbook for English-speaking students seeking to master the Arabic language.  Now hard to find in its original edition.