4 - [ARNAULD (Antoine) and Claude LANCELOT]. General and Rational Grammar, containing the fundamentals of the art of speech [...] and several new observations on the French language. Paris, Pierre le Petit, 1664. One volume, in-12 format, marbled sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine. 158 pp., (2) ff. Top cap missing.

[ARNAULD (Antoine) and Claude LANCELOT]. General and Rational Grammar, containing the fundamentals of the art of speech [...] and several new observations on the French language. Paris, Pierre le Petit, 1664. One volume, in-12 format, marbled sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine. 158 pp., (2) ff. Top cap missing. Second revised and expanded edition, based on the original of 1660, of the famous Port-Royal Grammar, composed by Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694) and Claude Lancelot (1615–1695), “one of the most famous texts in the history of linguistic theory” (En Français dans le Texte, no. 99).