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GODARD D'AUCOURT] - Mémoires Turcs, par un auteur Turc de to…
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689
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GODARD D'AUCOURT] - Mémoires Turcs, par un auteur Turc de to…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200
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Description
GODARD D'AUCOURT] - 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 revised and corrected edition with figures. Amsterdam, Par la Société, 1776. 2 vols. in-12, engraved title-front, XXIV pp., (1) f., 176 pp. ; engraved title-front, 238 pp. 4 plates h. t., contemporary porphyry calf, triple gilt thread on boards, spine ribbed and decorated.
JONES 81. MMF 58 R 24. COHEN 440. copy on large Hollande paper of which a contemporary note states that there were only eight copies. First edition cited by Cohen. The original edition appeared in 1743. One of the most cheerful satirical novels of the 18th century, teeming with curious observations on the mores of the time. This gallant story of the stay in France of two Turks, signed by a "Turkish Author of all the Mohammedan Academies, Licentiate in Turkish Law and Master of Arts of the University of Constantinople", comes from the various antecedents of which all the oriental fiction of the 18th century is based (Dufrenoy, Orient Romanesque). Title and figures after Jollain and engraved by Henriquez.
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