LANGUAGE -- COMIDAS de CARBOGNANO, C. Primi principi della gramatica turca ad uso dei missionari apostolici de Constantinopoli. Rome, Nella stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop. Fide, 1794. 12, 730 pp. 4°. Hcl. (Bind. a bit warped, half-ti. rep., small stamp on ti., some marg. stains).
First edition of the first Turkish grammar in Italian. Comidas de Carbognano was an Armenian minister of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies in Constantinople, who also wrote an important Descrizione Topografica di Constantinopoli, published in 1794. - Atabey 266; Blackmer 386.€ 240