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Recently published:- GALLAND, Antoine. Le voyage a Smyrne: un manuscrit d'Antoine Galland (1678), contenant Smyrne ancienne & moderne & des extraits du Voyage fait en Levant. Avant-propos d'Andre Miquel. Textes presentes, etablis & annotes par Frederic Bauden. Paris: Chandeigne, 2000. 335pp. ISBN: 2-906462-63-2. Price: FF 180.- / Euros 27.44 This beautifully produced book is a careful scholarly edition, with extensive notes, of a hitherto neglected and little-known manuscript in the Bibliotheque Royale Albert I in Brussels (together with extracts on Izmir from another in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich). It also has a substantial and informative introduction by its editor, who is, as many of you will know, the illustrious President of MELCOM International. Geoffrey Roper Islamic Bibliography Unit Cambridge University Library %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%