[Turkey; Greece]. CASTELLAN (Antoine-Laurent). Mœurs, usages - Lot 201

[Turkey; Greece]. CASTELLAN (Antoine-Laurent). Mœurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Paris, Nepveu, 1812. Six volumes in-16, eggplant glazed calf, spine with 4 nerves decorated with gilt fillets and double coffers, gilt title and tomaison, double framing of single and double gilt fillet with corner scrolls on the boards, double gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges, double gilt fillet framing on the inside covers, gilt edges (qq. corners very slightly crushed). First edition, illustrated with 72 finely engraved and colored plates depicting human types, costumes, musical instruments, pennants, etc. The painter and engraver Antoine-Laurent Castellan (1772-1838) had traveled to Turkey and Greece, from where he brought back the drawings for this work. A fine copy in a fine binding signed by Alphonse Giroux (1775-1848), a paper merchant who entrusted his bindings to quality craftsmen, in particular Thouvenin, using his own name in place of a signature. Without the 5 pp. of advice to the binder and the leaflet on Arabic spelling, which are not found in most copies. (Quérard II, 75; Colas I, 545; Vente Atabey 205 & 206).