James PORTER
Observations sur la Religion, les Loix, le Gouvernement et les Moeurs des Turcs. Traduit de l'Anglois, par M. B.(Bergier).[Observations on the Religion, Laws, Government and Customs of the Turks. Translated from the English by M. B. (Bergier).]
Chez Merlin|Paris • London 1769|10.3 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of the French translation established by Bergier (cf. Atabey 973. Not in Blackmer.)
Bindings in fawn half sheep, smooth spines decorated with gilt friezes, red shagreen title-pieces and green shagreen volume-numbering pieces, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplates pasted on the pastedowns, 19th-century bindings).
Sir James Porter served as ambassador to Constantinople from 1746 to 1762.
A pleasant copy.
€1,200