GUIGNARD, FRANCOIS-EMMANUEL, COMTE DE SAINT-PRIEST / SCHEFER, CHARLES (Ed.): - Mémoires sur l'ambassade de France en Turquie et sur le commerce des francais dans le Levant ... Suivis du texte des traductions originales des Capitulations et des Traités conclus avec la Sublime Porte ottomane. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1877.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), xiv, 542, (1). Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, extremities lightly frayed, partly unopened. Guignard (1735-1821), French politician and diplomat, was appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1768 and remained there until 1785 with the exemption of a short period (1776-78). His memoirs comprise a history of French relations with the Ottoman empire, biographies of previous French ambassadors and agents to the Porte and finally a history of French commerce and navigation in the Levant. Here for the first time published, included in "Publications de l'Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes". Not in Atabey.

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