État actuel de l’Empire Ottoman. Contenant des détails plus exacts que tous ceux qui ont parus jusqu’à présent sur la religion, le gouvernement, la milice, les mœurs & les amusemens des Turcs; avec une description particulièrede la cour & du sérail du grand Seigneur, ainsi que plusieurs anecdotes singulières & intéressantes. Par Elias Abesci, qui a résidé plusieurs années à Constantinople, attaché au service du grand Seigneur. Traduit de l’Anglois par M. Fontanelle. 1-2.
by HABESCI, Elias
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Paris, Lavillette, 1792. 8vo. xvi,+ 237; (4),+ 256 pp. Minor stain in margin and spotting. Well preserved mid 19th-century cloth, spine somewhat faded. Bookplate. Atabey 548. Weber II, 773. First French edition. The English original was published in 1784, and a German translation in 1785. Elias Habesci (a pseudonym?), born a Greek, probably a member of a Phanariote family. He served as a secretary to the Grand Vizier in Constantinople during the reign of Mustapha III, between 1757 and 1774.
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- État actuel de l’Empire Ottoman. Contenant des détails plus exacts que tous ceux qui ont parus jusqu’à présent sur la religion, le gouvernement, la milice, les mœurs & les amusemens des Turcs; avec une description particulièrede la cour & du sérail du grand Seigneur, ainsi que plusieurs anecdotes singulières & intéressantes. Par Elias Abesci, qui a résidé plusieurs années à Constantinople, attaché au service du grand Seigneur. Traduit de l’Anglois par M. Fontanelle. 1-2.
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- HABESCI, Elias
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- Hardcover
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Centralantikvariatet in Stockholm deals with rare and academic books in history, archaeology and related subjects, but we also have a large selection on music.
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