Des osmanischen Reichs Staatsverfassung und Staatsverwaltung.
Vienna, Camesina, 1815.
8vo. 2 vols. XLII, (2), 499, (1) pp. X, 531 (but: 532) pp. Contemp. wrappers.
$2,010.00
First edition. Encompassing account of the legal constitution, administration, and public, civil, and fiscal law of the Ottoman Empire, compiled by the great Austrian oriental scholar Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall.
Somewhat browned throughout. Untrimmed copy, somewhat rough at the edges. Bookplate of Oskar Göschen to pastedowns; last in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer.
References
Goedeke VII, 760, 39. Wurzbach VII, 270 & 274.