CARDONNE, DENIS DOMINIQUE: - Mêlanges de littérature orientale, traduits de différens manuscrits turcs, arabes & persans de la Bibliothéque du Roi. Two volumes in one. Paris, chez Hérissant le Fils, 1770.

. 12mo. Pp. (xii), 314, (10); (iv), 293, (6). Front free end paper missing. Old inscription on half-title to volume one. Volume one's title with small repair without any loss of text, small loss to margin of volume two's half-title. Contemporary half calf, flat spine richly gilt, r.e., rubbed. First edition comprising an assortment of Oriental manuscripts preserved in the Royal Library of Paris. Cardonne, a French orientalist and translator who resided in Constantinople for about twenty years. On his return to France, he became the king's secretary-interpreter in oriental languages and later professor at the Collège Royal. Cioranescu 15566.

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