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Dear Dr. Wakefield, The book appears to be a mystery. Mouton used to be a Dutch publisher before it merged with Walter de Gruyter of Berlin. I checked the 'Brinkman's cumulatieve catalogus', the Dutch national bibliography, for the years 1975-1977, but the book you mention is not there. Neither does the Royal Library at the Hague possess a copy. There is no legal deposit in the Netherlands, but most publishers voluntarily donate a copy of every book to the Royal Library. No library in the Netherlands holds a complete set of the Near and Middle East Monograph Series, published by Mouton. I doubt if any Dutch library would have bought a copy if the book had been available. Most libraries have either the Italian original or the French translation, published by Klincksieck in 1968. Best wishes, Arnoud Vrolijk Leiden University Library > Dear Colleagues, > > I wonder whether anyone can confirm that the following was NOT published: > > The literature of the Turks, 1. Translated by K(athleen).R.F. Burrill. The > Hague : Mouton, 1976. (Near and Middle East Monograph series, 3) > > This citation appears in R.M. Savory (ed.), Introduction to Islamic > civilisation, Cambridge University Press, 1976, page 195, but I have not > been able to find a biliographical record on the usual databases. Kathleen > Burrill's work was (is ?) an English translation of Alessio Bombaci, Storia > della letteratura turca dall'antico impero di Mongolia all'odierna Turchia > (Milan, 1956). > > Any assistance will be gratefully received. > > Yours sincerely, > > > Colin Wakefield > Senior Assistant Librarian > Department of Oriental Books > Bodleian Library > Oxford OX1 3BG > UK > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%