[Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Jacques] Description du Pachalik de Bagdad

[Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Jacques] Description du Pachalik de Bagdad suivie d'une notice historique sur les Wahabis, et de quelques autres pièces relatives à l'histoire et à la littérature de l'Orient. Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, 1809. First edition, 8vo (20.8 x 12.4cm), vii [1] 261 pp., contemporary red quarter morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled covers and endpapers, vellum tips, half-title, spotting and browning, bookplates to front pastedown (one partly effaced), tide-mark to head of gutter of first few leaves [Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1962] Qty: (1) Note: The account of the Wahhabis and their origin in what is now Saudi Arabia occupies pp. 125-182, and is followed by a 'Notice sur les Yézidis' and a section titled 'Poésies persanes'. The work was edited by Silvestre de Sacy. Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile (gilt-stamp to foot of spine; ownership inscription dated Beirut, 1967 to half-title).