Anbieter- und Zahlungsinformationen. Firste dition, Folio, 6 , 89,, 14 of index. Two title pages. One by hand ink portrait of Sultan Ibrahim and three engraving portaits and one engraving of a pageant. Missing the frontispiece engraving. Modern brown leather binding. The copy is internally with some pages rubbed and soiled. In Rycaut "was sent to Turkey as secretary in the embassy of Heneage Finch, second earl of Winchilsea. He was attached to the Porte about six years, and during that period twice travelled to England" DNB.
An unsophisticated copy of this nowadays rare book in its first edition. Weitere Informationen zu diesem Verkäufer Verkäufer kontaktieren 1. Second edition, folio Rycaut's most important work, the first edition of which was almost wholly destroyed in the Great Fire of London Pepys writes that only twenty-two examples survived and so this is the earliest edition that can practically be obtained. He went to Constantinople in as secretary to the Ambassador to the Porte, Heneage Finch, and in was appointed Consul in Smyrna, where he resided for eleven years.
His information on the Ottoman Empire was taken from several sources including original records. The present book was extremely important and influential and provides the fullest account of Ottoman government and society during the seventeenth century. The engravings in the text depict Turkish costume; they are after the kiyafet or costume book which Rycaut had commissioned from an anonymous artist of the bazaar in Constantinople.
These were a popular collector's item for visitors to Turkey, they could be kept in book form or disbound for framing. The illustrations done for Rycaut were unusually good examples of the genre and subsequently much copied. Weitere Informationen zu diesem Verkäufer Verkäufer kontaktieren 2. Folio x mm. With 19 text engravings and two plates 29 costume illustrations in all ; wants the frontispiece.
Later half calf on five raised bands, gilt, with giltstamped spine label. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled in red. Osterhammel, Die Entzauberung Asiens, The first edition, which this replaces, was almost entirely destroyed by the Great Fire of London.
