Antoine-Laurent CASTELLAN
Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire ; avec des éclaircissemens tirés d'ouvrages orientaux, et communiqués par M. Langlès[Manners, Customs, and Dress of the Ottomans, with an Abridged History; with Explanatory Notes Drawn from Oriental Works and Communicated by M. Langlès]
A. Nepveu|Paris 1812|8.4 x 12.6 cm|6 volumes reliés
First edition, published in Paris by Nepveu in 1812 in six volumes, illustrated with 72 engraved plates by Lambert, most of them reduced from those in Dalvimart’s Costume of Turkey, published in London in 1802. Complete with all plates; without the binder’s directions and the leaf concerning the orthography of Arabic words, both of which are absent from many copies.
Contemporary full mottled tan calf. Smooth spines, slightly faded, decorated with gilt...
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