Travels & Discoveries in Greece & the Levant
Lot. 6135 Rycaut Paul, “Histoire de l’Etat present de l’Empire Ottoman”, Amsterdam, A. Wolfgank, 1678. 12mo, pp. 498. Complete with engraved frontispiece and 18 beautiful folded copper engraved plates. Rycaut’s history of the Ottoman empire was, according Blackmer, an extremely important and influential work, which provides the fullest account of the Ottoman world of the 17th century. The fine engravings of the people of the Ottoman Empire are after the “kiyafet” or costumes book which Rycaut had commissioned from an artist in the grand bazaar in Constantinople. Rycaut reached Constantinople in 1661 as secretary to the British ambassador and spent years in the Levant. Contemporary full vellum. A fine clean copy. Atabey 1069 (for the 1670 edition). Starting Price: 480 €
Lot. 6136 Sagredo Giovanni, “Memorias Historicas de los Monarcas Othomanos”, Madrid, Imp. Juan García Infanzon, 1684. Folio (29x20cm), pp.[10],552,[8]. Complete. First edition in Spanish, translated from the original in Italian Tuscan dialect published in 1673. Giovanni Sagredo (1616-1691), a Venetian historian, diplomat and friend of Morosini, conducted a very detailed and early history of the Ottoman Empire written in Tuscan dialect. His account is considered one of the first comprehensive histories of the Ottoman world, including long descriptions of Ottoman Empire’s multinational society, customs and people. Provenance: ex libris of Joaquin Xavier Baiona y Ezpeleta, governor of Navarra in the 18th century and member of a leading Spanish noble family. Contemporary Spanish full leather. A very good copy. Atabey 1079 (for the Italian edition) Starting Price: 850 €
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