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Auction archive: Lot number 811

TURKISH EMPIRE; NICOLAY (NICOLAS DE)

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$790 - US$1,053
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 811

TURKISH EMPIRE; NICOLAY (NICOLAS DE)

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$790 - US$1,053
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

(A Middle Eastern Journey | Live Online, 2nd December 2020) TURKISH EMPIRE; NICOLAY (NICOLAS DE) TURKISH EMPIRE; NICOLAY (NICOLAS DE) Plusieurs descriptions des accoustremens tant des magistrats et officiers de la Porte de l'empereur des Turcs, que des peuples assujectis à son empire, numerous full page engravings, no. 60/61 reapead (identifying this as Guillemot's 1632 Paris edition), marginal worming, slight toning, rebound, new endpapers, later paneled calf, inner hinge cracked, all leaves loose, [Colas 2207 (note); Hage Chahine 860; not in Hiler or Lipperheide], folio, [Guillemot], Paris, [1632] This book is part of the French edition of Laonicus Chalcocondyles' work entitled L'histoire de la decadence de l'Empire grec, etc. The descriptions of the Ottoman and Arabian costumes are based on the account of Nicolas Nicolay d'Arfeuille and on the Byzantine prophecies of Thomas Artus, Sieur d Embry (c. 1550-after 1614), who is known for his satirical take on the French court, Les Hermaphrodites. (Qty: 1)

Auction archive: Lot number 811
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 2020
Auction house:
Chiswick Auctions
Colville Road 1
London, W3 8BL
United Kingdom
info@chiswickauctions.co.uk
+44 020 89924442
Beschreibung:

(A Middle Eastern Journey | Live Online, 2nd December 2020) TURKISH EMPIRE; NICOLAY (NICOLAS DE) TURKISH EMPIRE; NICOLAY (NICOLAS DE) Plusieurs descriptions des accoustremens tant des magistrats et officiers de la Porte de l'empereur des Turcs, que des peuples assujectis à son empire, numerous full page engravings, no. 60/61 reapead (identifying this as Guillemot's 1632 Paris edition), marginal worming, slight toning, rebound, new endpapers, later paneled calf, inner hinge cracked, all leaves loose, [Colas 2207 (note); Hage Chahine 860; not in Hiler or Lipperheide], folio, [Guillemot], Paris, [1632] This book is part of the French edition of Laonicus Chalcocondyles' work entitled L'histoire de la decadence de l'Empire grec, etc. The descriptions of the Ottoman and Arabian costumes are based on the account of Nicolas Nicolay d'Arfeuille and on the Byzantine prophecies of Thomas Artus, Sieur d Embry (c. 1550-after 1614), who is known for his satirical take on the French court, Les Hermaphrodites. (Qty: 1)

Auction archive: Lot number 811
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 2020
Auction house:
Chiswick Auctions
Colville Road 1
London, W3 8BL
United Kingdom
info@chiswickauctions.co.uk
+44 020 89924442
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