Lettres Turques, historiques et politiques, Ecrites tant par Méhémet II, Empereur Ottoman, que par ses Généraux, ses Sultanes, un de ses Ambassadeurs, & Usum-Cassan, Roi de Perse, son Contemporain. Traduites du Grec & d

by [Belin de Monterzi (B**** de M*******)]

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Book desription: Paris, Duchesne, Panckoucke, Prault, 1764. Two volumes. Small octavo. Pp. xii, 144; 155, (1). Both half-titles, with the title 'Histoire de Méhémet II, Empereur Ottoman, enrichie de Lettres traduites du Grec et de l'Arabe' are present. Head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials; shoulder notes. Ownership signature to each title. Uniformly bound in contemporary plain paper wrappers, frayed, brown paper spines, one with remnants of old paper strengthening; dog eared, bit soiled in places. Still a charming, unsophisticated set, preserved in the original state. - - First edition. A series of fictitious letters written by the orientalist Belin de Monterzi. Monterzi's books, his claims to historical veracity notwithstanding, were mostly fiction disguised as history. See Joseph Marie Quérard: La France littéraire (Paris, 1827). .

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