GUER

MOEURS ET USAGES DES TURCS, LEUR RELIGION, LEUR GOUVERNEMENT CIVIL, MILITAIRE ET POLITIQUE, AVEC UN ABREGE DE L’HISTOIREOTTOMANE.

GUER, Jean Antoine

Paris, 1747

4to.2 vols.(4),XXIV, 453,(19) pp. (2), VIll, 537, (2) pp.With 2 engr.title
vignettes, 10 engr. initials, 20 engr. text vignettes, 2 engr. frontispieces, and
28 engr.plates.Contemp.calf gilt with gilt stamped spine labels.

Second issue in the year of first publication. “This work is especially valued
for its engravings of Turkish costume figures and genre scences by Duflos
after Boucher and Hallé” (Navari Greek), as well as for “its fine folding
panorama of Constantinople” (Atabey). “The French writer and jurist Guer
（1713-64) had not travelled. His work is based on a wide knowledge of
historiography and travel literature. It is singled out by the high quality of its
wealth of illustrations”(Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister).The first edition was
published by Coustelier in Paris, 1746-47; the same year saw the second
edition (Merigot and Piget in Paris) as well as the third (Mortier in
Amsterdam).
Inconspicuous repairs to folds of Constantinople view;occasional slight
browning. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist
Herry W. Schaefer.