[EARLY TREATISE OF A PRECISE DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD] Abrégé de géographie: Ancienne et moderne, historique, politique... [i.e. Compendium of geography: Ancient and modern, historical, political, commercial and religious]

NASSIF MALLOUF (Nâsîf ibn Ilyâs Munim al-Malûf), (Turkish dragoman and orientalist, Professeur de Langues Orientales au College de Smyrne et Auteur de Divers Ouvrages en Arabe et en Turc), (1823-1865), Imprimerie de J. Magnis, Smyrne (Smyrna - Izmir), 1851. COMPLETE TITLE: [SMYRNA IMRPINT / EARLY TREATISE OF A PRECISE DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD] Abrégé de géographie: Ancienne et moderne, historique, politique, commerciale et religieuse [i.e. Compendium of geography: Ancient and modern, historical, political, commercial and religious] Contemporary cloth bdg. with marbled boards. Chipped on extremities on boards, spine. Minor foxing on pages and stains on edges of pages. Overall a very good copy. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In French. [viii], 229, [1] p. Extremely rare first and only French edition of Mallouf's 'Compendium of Geography' which is one of the three books he presented to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain. Joseph Magnis (a well-known Greek printer in Smyrna) printed and pub