GUER, Jean-Antoine Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur gouvernement civil, militaire et politique, avec un abrégé de l'histoire Ottomane. 1747Paris,Merigot & Piget,2 vol., 4to, cont. calf, gilt. orn. spines on 5 raised bands (heads and...
Estimation :
1000 / 1400
Adjudication :
900 €
Description
tails repaired), red leather title labels, red edges, [4]-xxiv-453-17, [1]-viii-537[2] pp. (faint marg. waterstains at the end of the 1st vol., sm. tear in 1st pl. of 2nd vol., frontisp. of 1st vol. mounted). Bon ex.
"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" (cf. Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister). First publ. by Coustelier in Paris, 1746-47. The same year, our copy, a 2nd ed. was publ. by Merigot & Piget in Paris. With 2 engr. frontisp., 2 engr. title vignettes, engr. initials, 20 engr. headpieces and endpieces and 28 engr. pl. (of which 7 fold.).
"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" (cf. Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister). First publ. by Coustelier in Paris, 1746-47. The same year, our copy, a 2nd ed. was publ. by Merigot & Piget in Paris. With 2 engr. frontisp., 2 engr. title vignettes, engr. initials, 20 engr. headpieces and endpieces and 28 engr. pl. (of which 7 fold.).
