[Near East]. [Sixteenth-century book]. POSTEL (Guillaume). - Lot 193

[Near East]. [Sixteenth-century book]. POSTEL (Guillaume). Des histoires orientales et principalement des turkes A Paris, Imp. Hierosme de Marnef, 1575. In-16, [24] f. including title and 2 bl., 374 p. [45] f. (including publisher's mark and 1 bl.), soft ivory parchment with period overlays, smooth spine, handwritten title, traces of lace (cover creased, one corner gnawed, lower cover replaced, upper guard mq., very slightly browned). Third and most important edition of this work. First published in 1560 under the title La République des turcs, this third edition contains a new epistle, as well as Réflexions sur la langue turque, the very first Turkish grammar essay published in France and the only one of its kind in the 16th century. (USTC 1401).