GUER (Jean-Antoine). Mœurs et usages des Turcs, leur religio - Lot 188

GUER (Jean-Antoine). Mœurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur gouvernement civil, militaire et politique, avec un abrégé de l'histoire ottomane. Paris, Coustelier, 1746-1747. 2 volumes in-4, first edition, illustrated with 2 frontispieces and 28 plates of Turkish views, scenes of manners and costumes, including 2 folding plates (one with four panels of the great serrail of Constantinople and one with three panels of the city and port of Constantinople), 5 double plates and 21 plates hors-texte, copper-engraved by Claude-Augustin Duflos after François Boucher and Noël Hallé. Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, boards with triple framed cold fillets, 5-ribbed spine, red morocco title-piece, brown morocco head-piece. Ex-libris Bibliothèque de M. Le comte Ferrand - M. de Palierne de Chassenay. (some foxing and soiling, several leaves foxed, tear without loss to the seraglio plate and to an off-text plate, binding rubbed, corners dulled, top cover of first volume and bottom cover of second volume missing).