D ANVILLE: L Empire Turc considere dans son Etablissement et dans ses Accroissements successifs. Paris 1772 First and only edition, in 8vo 17 x 11 cm, contemporary leather over boards, spine richly gilt, rear cover with minor wear. Text clean and bright. Complete: title [4], 138 p. Overall in very good plus condition. A presentation of the Ottoman Levant by the famous French geographer D’Anville, the leading French geographer of the 18th century. The work was published during the Russo-Turkish War of the early 1770s, when the possibility of a total collapse of the Ottoman Empire seemed very probable. A very rare work, one of the few accounts by D’Anville. References: Atabey 28, not in Blackmer