MOEURS ET USAGES DES TURCS, LEUR RELIGION, LEUR GOUVERNEMENT CIVIL, MILITAIRE ET POLITIQUE, AVEC UN ABREGE DE L’HISTOIREOTTOMANE.
\nGUER, Jean Antoine<\/p>\n
Paris, 1747<\/p>\n
4to.2 vols.(4),XXIV, 453,(19) pp. (2), VIll, 537, (2) pp.With 2 engr.title
\nvignettes, 10 engr. initials, 20 engr. text vignettes, 2 engr. frontispieces, and
\n28 engr.plates.Contemp.calf gilt with gilt stamped spine labels.<\/p>\n
Second issue in the year of first publication. “This work is especially valued
\nfor its engravings of Turkish costume figures and genre scences by Duflos
\nafter Boucher and Hall\u00e9” (Navari Greek), as well as for “its fine folding
\npanorama of Constantinople” (Atabey). “The French writer and jurist Guer
\n\uff081713-64) had not travelled. His work is based on a wide knowledge of
\nhistoriography and travel literature. It is singled out by the high quality of its
\nwealth of illustrations”(Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister).The first edition was
\npublished by Coustelier in Paris, 1746-47; the same year saw the second
\nedition (Merigot and Piget in Paris) as well as the third (Mortier in
\nAmsterdam).
\nInconspicuous repairs to folds of Constantinople view;occasional slight
\nbrowning. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist
\nHerry W. Schaefer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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