[Rarebooks] FS: Guer: Moeurs et Usages des Turcs

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Guer, Jean-Antoine. MOEURS ET USAGES DES TURCS, LEUR RELIGION, LEUR 
GOUVERNEMENT CIVIL, MILITAIRE ET POLITIQUE, AVEC UN ABREGE DE 
L'HISTOIRE OTTOMANE [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris: Chez Merigot & Piget, 1747. 
Illus. with two engraved frontispieces by C. Duflos after F. Boucher 
and N. Halle, titles printed in red and black with devices, 28 
additional plates (7 folding with views of Constantinople), engraved 
initials, and head and tail pieces. Contemporary mottle calf, boards 
ruled in gilt, five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, red 
morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt. Blackmer 762 (Amsterdam). 
Weber: Gennadius Lib. II, 761. Colas 1349. Lipperheide 1418. Cohen-de 
Ricci 465. Atabey 534 (Coustelier). Brunet II, 1783. Morgand and 
Fatout 9251. Second edition.

"[Guer's] Turkish work is of considerable interest for its plates, 
which were engraved by Duflos after designs by Boucher and Halle and 
which consist of views and scenes illustrating Turkish characters and 
costumes. They also include a folding double page panorama of 
Constantinople. These plates are particularly charming," (Blackmer). 
Provenance: Bookplate of LaVerne Baldwin (former Consul General at 
Istanbul, Turkey). Gift to Baldwin from Betty (Bertha) Carp, a close 
friend of Allen Dulles and an indispensable figure of the U.S. 
Embassy staff in Constantinople from 1920 to 1960. Wear to 
extremities with some loss at spine heads, and two small splits at 
tip of joints on first volume, volume number in one compartment 
mostly worn away, light scattered foxing and minor offsetting, 
marginal on plates, one folding panorama with small tear near hinge 
and upper margin, one with a one inch tear to lower section near 
hinge, otherwise plates quite sharp, overall a very good copy. 
[33804] $4000.00 

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