Bernard de Paris, Vocabolario italiano-turchesco, Rome, 1665, 3 volumes, modern half leather

Bernard de Paris

Vocabolario italiano-turchesco... per l'utilità non solamente di quelli che bramaranno d'imparar la lingua Turchesca... [translated from the French by Pietro d'Abbavilla]. Rome: tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1665

3 volumes, 4to (223 x 160mm.), half-title, woodcut device on verso of title-page, modern half brown leather, occasional light browning

Bernard de Paris, a Capuchin friar, was a missionary in Turkey and the Near East and his French-Turkish dictionary was translated into Italian at the behest of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. It contains around 25,000 entries and includes Turkish, Arabic and Persian equivalents.

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Duque de Hyjar (Hijar), armorial bookplate pasted to half-title