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GUER (Jean-Antoine). Moeurs et usages des turcs, leur religion, leur gouvernement civil, militaire et politique, Avec un abrégé de l'Histoire Ottomane. Paris : Coustelier, 1746 (volume 1) ; Paris : F.G. Merigot, Piget, 1747 (volume 2). - 2 volumes in-4, 290 x 210 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), xxiv, 453 pp., (9 ff.), 12 plates ; frontispiece, (1 f.), viij, 537 pp., (1 f.), 16 plates. Rasped tan calf, gilt roulette on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, spotted edges (binding of the end of the 18th century). First edition. This very popular book, of a brilliant writing, was composed from various relations: "I looked at all that these Writers said as excellent materials, of which I could form a new edifice; & by presenting to the Public a followed & complete body of the Manners & uses of the Turks, I dared to flatter myself to give him a work which, without being deprived of the pleasures of the novelty, gathers under the same point of view various separated objects, & can instruct a Reader of many details which he ignores" (page xj). The popularity of the work is also due to the very beautiful illustration engraved on copperplate by Claude-Augustin-Pierre Duflos (1700-1786) after the compositions of François Boucher (1703-1770) and Noël Hallé (1711-1781). It includes 2 title vignettes, 11 headbands, 10 endpapers, 10 lettering, 2 frontispieces and 28 plates depicting scenes of manners, costumes as well as views, including those of the city, the port and the seraglio of Constantinople. Cracks at the hinges, rubbing from use. Missing head cover of the second volume. Traces of moisture in the margin of the A2 leaf of the first volume. Old restoration on the back of the large map of the view of the great seraglio of Constantinople. Staining on the edge of folio S3 in the second volume. Scattered foxing and a few faded leaves.
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GUER (Jean-Antoine). Moeurs et usages des turcs, leur religion, leur gouvernement civil, militaire et politique, Avec un abrégé de l'Histoire Ottomane. Paris : Coustelier, 1746 (volume 1) ; Paris : F.G. Merigot, Piget, 1747 (volume 2). - 2 volumes in-4, 290 x 210 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), xxiv, 453 pp., (9 ff.), 12 plates ; frontispiece, (1 f.), viij, 537 pp., (1 f.), 16 plates. Rasped tan calf, gilt roulette on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, spotted edges (binding of the end of the 18th century). First edition. This very popular book, of a brilliant writing, was composed from various relations: "I looked at all that these Writers said as excellent materials, of which I could form a new edifice; & by presenting to the Public a followed & complete body of the Manners & uses of the Turks, I dared to flatter myself to give him a work which, without being deprived of the pleasures of the novelty, gathers under the same point of view various separated objects, & can instruct a Reader of many details which he ignores" (page xj). The popularity of the work is also due to the very beautiful illustration engraved on copperplate by Claude-Augustin-Pierre Duflos (1700-1786) after the compositions of François Boucher (1703-1770) and Noël Hallé (1711-1781). It includes 2 title vignettes, 11 headbands, 10 endpapers, 10 lettering, 2 frontispieces and 28 plates depicting scenes of manners, costumes as well as views, including those of the city, the port and the seraglio of Constantinople. Cracks at the hinges, rubbing from use. Missing head cover of the second volume. Traces of moisture in the margin of the A2 leaf of the first volume. Old restoration on the back of the large map of the view of the great seraglio of Constantinople. Staining on the edge of folio S3 in the second volume. Scattered foxing and a few faded leaves.
