Author: CARDONNE, DENIS DOMINIQUE:
Title: Mêlanges de littérature orientale, traduits de différens manuscrits turcs, arabes & persans de la Bibliotheque du Roi. Two volumes in one. Paris, chez Hérissant le Fils, 1770.
Description: . 12mo. Pp. (xii), 314, (10); (iv), 293, (6). Old inscription on half-title to volume one. Volume one's title with small repairs without any loss of text, lower portion of margin to volume two's half-title cut out but no loss. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt, rubbed. First edition comprising an assortment of oriental manuscripts kept at the Royal Library in Paris. Cardonne, a French orientalist and translator resided in Constantinople for about twenty years. Cioranescu 15566.

Keywords: Near East, turkish, arabic, persian, language, linguistic, langue, oriental, asia, asie, asiatic, asien


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