Small 8vo. vi, 733 pp., [1], contemporary full calf, partly damaged boards, marbled endpaper, title gilt on raised & decorated spine, marble end paper, contemporary ink inscriptions on title page, copy inside clean & in very good condition, Chez Vincent, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, first edition, 1772.

Synopsis

Jean Francois de Lacroix was one of the leading orientalist of his family that spreads her activities between 1653 – 1712. He studied in Istanbul, and travelled several times in the East as representative of Louis IV. He published in 1768 Abrégé Chronologique de L’Histoire Ottomane.
This a major historical work in which the author presents the Arab history since the Prophet up to 1538. (Barbier, I, 179 b.)