230 - CASTELLAN (Antoine-Laurent). Customs, Practices, and Dress of the Ottomans, and a Summary of Their History; with clarifications drawn from Oriental works and provided by Mr. Langlès. Paris: Nepveu, 1812.

CASTELLAN (Antoine-Laurent). Customs, Practices, and Dress of the Ottomans, and a Summary of Their History; with clarifications drawn from Oriental works and provided by Mr. Langlès. Paris: Nepveu, 1812. 6 volumes in-16, red morocco leather, smooth spines richly decorated, gilt roulette framing the covers and along the edges (contemporary binding). First edition of this analysis and compilation of accounts on the Ottoman people and Turkey. It is illustrated with 72 separately printed plates, finely colored at the time and engraved by Lambert. They depict mainly costumes but also monuments, views, scenes, instruments, and objects, etc. (Brunet I, 1226, Colas 545.) A work written by the painter and traveler Antoine-Laurent Castellan with the collaboration of the Orientalist and librarian Louis-Mathieu Langlès. It includes a summary of Ottoman history, preceded by a historical overview of Muhammad and the Caliphs, which occupies the first two volumes. The third volume deals with the Ottoman court and the seraglio. The fourth is devoted to government and administration, the fifth to the judicial system and religion, and the last to the arts and crafts. A fine copy in period morocco leather. Very slight light foxing, mainly on the text.