Wahreste und neueste Abbildung Des Türckischen Hofes

Author: Ferriol, Charles de

Publisher: Weigel, Christoph

Published: Nürnberg

Publishing year: 1721

Ferriol, Charles de (1652-1722). "Wahreste und neueste Abbildung Des Türckischen Hofes" (1st part, 1723). "Der wahrest- und neuseten Abbildung des Türkischen Hofes Fortsetzung" (2nd part, 1721). Nuremberg: Ch. Weigel, 1721-23. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo. (16), 112 pp., 65, (1 folded) copperplates; (16), 103 pp., 52, (4 folded) copperplates. Each plate with 1-3 pages of explanatory text. Orig. full-leather binding from the time.

Charles de Ferriol was a French ambassador sent by Louis XVI to the Ottoman Empire from 1692 to 1711, during the rule of Sultan Ahmend III. - Full-page, resp. folded plates, depict figures of various estates of the nations of the Ottoman Empire. - 2nd part (1721) - first edition, 1st part (1723) - second edition. - Complete. - Binding rubbed at edges and corners, spine gilding and title label faded. Spine torn about 1 cm at the top. The penultimate folded plate in folding repaired (see photo). - Old handwritten exlibris (Wenz. Hadek) on title, as well on the flyleaf in front and pasted exlibris (JUDr. L. Špaček) on the front pastedown.

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