Grammaire turque, ou, Methode courte & facile, pour apprendre la langue turque
Subtitle: avec un recueil des noms, des verbes, & des manieres de parler les plus necessaires a sçavoir, avec plusieurs dialogues familiers
Publisher: Ibrahim Müteferrika
Published: 1730
Place of publication: A Constantinople
Language: fre; ota
Translated from: ota
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Turkish language; Grammar; Conversation and phrase books; French; Writing
Other titles: Grammaire tvrqve ou methode covrte & facile pour apprendre la langve tvrqve; Methode courte & facile pour apprendre la langue turque
Description: Turkish grammar in French prepared, according to Watson, by a dragoman of the French Embassy in Constantinople under the direction of the German Jesuit Jean Baptiste Daniel Holdermann.
Notes: By Jean Baptiste Daniel Holdermann. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel.

Printed by Ibrahim Müteferrika. Cf. Qaddūrah.

The first book printed in Turkey in roman type, at the first Turkish press. The type was cast locally. Cf. Qaddūrah.

Signatures: [1-27⁴].

Error in paging: 162 misnumbered 152.

Page 2 (2nd count) consists of a folded engraved plate of Turkish scripts with caption: Table alphabetique.

Title-page vignette, tailpieces, ornamental headpieces.

Unsigned dedication to Cardinal Fleury: p. [3]-[5] (1st count).

Errata: p. [7]-[8] at end.

Backer-Sommervogel, IV, 431.

Qaddūrah, W. Début de l'imprimerie arabe à Istanbul et en Syrie, p. 262, no. 8.

Text in French; grammatical examples, vocabulary, and "dialogues" in Ottoman Turkish, romanized Ottoman Turkish, and French translation.