GALLAND (JULIEN CLAUDE) Recueil des Rits et céremonies du pelerinage de la Mecque, aquel ecrits relatifs à la religion, aux sciences & aux moeurs des Turcs, FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornament on title, light stain to pp.5-8, nineteenth century calf, spine gilt-tooled with gilt-morocco lettering label [Blackmer 643; Gay 3639], 8vo, Amsterdam and Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1754 Fußnoten "This very interesting work contains five separate essays. The first three are translations from Arabic and Turkish authorities" (Blackmer), comprising an important 42-page account of Mecca, a study of the "Catéchisme Musulman", and one on the sciences of the Turks. The other essays are an eye-witness account of the Island of Chios, and a description of the marriage of Sultana Esma with Yakub Pasha, governor of Silistria.
GALLAND (JULIEN CLAUDE) Recueil des Rits et céremonies du pelerinage de la Mecque, aquel ecrits relatifs à la religion, aux sciences & aux moeurs des Turcs, FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornament on title, light stain to pp.5-8, nineteenth century calf, spine gilt-tooled with gilt-morocco lettering label [Blackmer 643; Gay 3639], 8vo, Amsterdam and Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1754 Fußnoten "This very interesting work contains five separate essays. The first three are translations from Arabic and Turkish authorities" (Blackmer), comprising an important 42-page account of Mecca, a study of the "Catéchisme Musulman", and one on the sciences of the Turks. The other essays are an eye-witness account of the Island of Chios, and a description of the marriage of Sultana Esma with Yakub Pasha, governor of Silistria.
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