Claude GODARD D'AUCOUR
Mémoires turcs, Par un Auteur Turc de toutes les Académies Mahométanes, Licencié en droit Turc et Maître-Es-arts de l'Université de Constantinople[Turkish Memoirs, by a Turkish Author of All Mohammedan Academies, Bachelor of Turkish Law and Master of Arts of the University of Constantinople]
Par la Société|Amsterdam 1776|10 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
New edition, partly original, revised and corrected, illustrated with 4 engraved plates out of text and an engraved title-page in the first volume.
Contemporary full mottled calf, smooth spines gilt with a repeated floral tool (the decorative motifs partly faded), red morocco lettering-pieces, rubbing to the spines, gilt rolls to the head- and tailcaps, one headcap shaved, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets to the board edges, three corners softened, red edges, a few small snags to the board edges, bookplates to the pastedowns, bindings of the period.
The title-page and plates were engraved by Benoît Louis Henriquez after drawings by Jollain. Cohen 440. See Atabey
€1,350