Mémoires turcs, Par un Auteur Turc de toutes les Académies Mahométanes, Licencié en droit Turc et Maître-Es-arts de l'Université de Constantinople

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 for the first edition of 1743, unillustrated (two issues); Leonora Navari, who did not see this 1776 edition, considers the first illustrated edition to be that of 1897, with plates by E. P. Millio. Not in Blackmer.

First illustrated edition of this delightful piece of “turquerie”.

"Godard was a dramatist who also wrote 'Il Califfo di Bagdad'.

This work was several times reprinted ; the Frankfurt 1769 edition contained [comme celle-ci] a dedication to madame Dethou [sic] which caught the public eye and probably contributed to its popularity". Cf. Leonora Navari.