[Armenia]. - Lot 194

[Armenia]. BIANCHI (Xavier-Thomas). Le nouveau guide de la conversation en français et en turc, à l'usage des voyageurs français dans le Levant et des Turcs qui viennent en France... Seconde édition. Paris, Impr. orientale de Mme Vve Dondey-Dupré, 1852. In-8 oblong, XXI p., [1] f., 299 p., [1] f. (errata), [20] f., XIV-25 p., paperback (spine browned, dust on covers). A fine, uncut copy of this 3-column manual of conversational examples in French, Persian and phonetically transcribed Persian. The work is also distinguished by its end-of-volume content, namely a "complete collection of capitulations or peace treaties between France and the Ottoman Porte, from 1535 up to and including the last Constantinople Convention of November 25, 1838, and the Khaththi cherif or Constituent Act of Gulkhanè of November 3, 1839...".