Paul PANCKOUCKE
[IMPRESSION DE VERSAILLES] Mentor à Tyrinthe, narration instructive, critique et morale, sur les événemens, l'existence naturelle, l'esprit et la politique des Tyrinthiens. Fragment inédit d'un ancien ouvrage grec, traduit en plusieurs langues, à Constantinople, par l'effendi Cohé-Cekuk
[IMPRESSION DE VERSAILLES] Mentor at Tyrinthe, an instructive, critical, and moral narrative on the events, natural existence, spirit, and politics of the Tyrinthians. An unpublished fragment from an ancient Greek work, translated into several languages in Constantinople by Effendi Cohé-Cekuk]
John Strafford • Moutardier|Versailles 1802|12.3 x 21 cm|Relié
Original edition reprinted at Smyrna (in reality Versailles), under the supervision of Mr. John Strafford (in fact by Moutardier); (cf. Quérard VI, 576; Drujon, Livres à clefs, I, 625.)
Contemporary half mottled fawn sheep, smooth spine tooled with gilt hatched fillets, brick-coloured sheep lettering-piece, a few small losses to the spine, yellow edges sprinkled with blue.
Sole edition of this manifestly pseudepigraphic and encrypted work, suppressed by order of the Consular government, which accounts for its marked scarcity.
A vehement critique of prevailing political and social institutions; however, it appears very difficult to connect the author with the renowned Lille bookselling dynasty of the same period.
€1,000