DE LA CROIX

ABBREGE CHRONOLOGIQUE DE L’HISTOIRE OTTOMANE

par M. DE LA CROIX

Paris, 1768

First edition of the history of Ottoman empire. A. L. M. Pétis de la Croix, son of Francois Pétit the younger (the Arabic interpreter of the French court, the post he inherited from his father Francois Pétit de la Croix the elder), followed footsteps of his father and grandfather and became a notable orientalist.