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BAUDIER (Michel) Paris, L'Angelier, Claude Cramoisy, 1631.
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BAUDIER (Michel) Paris, L'Angelier, Claude Cramoisy, 1631.
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
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Description
BAUDIER (Michel)
Paris, L'Angelier, Claude Cramoisy, 1631.
Histoire généralle du serrail et de la cour du grand seigneur Empereur des Turcs.
2 works in one vol. gr. in-8 (22,3 × 16,5 cm), soft parchment, smooth spine with handwritten title, traces of gutter clasps (contemporary binding).
[4] ff. 183 p., [9] p.
Second edition.
Copper-engraved title-frontispiece and a fine full-page figure (depicting a giraffe).
The figure with the giraffe can only be found in certain editions (this one and that of 1638).
Bound afterwards, by the same author:
Histoire de la cour du Roy de la Chine. Paris, L'Angelier, Claude Cramoisy, 1631.
56 p., [1] f.
Binding slightly dusted, tear to parchment on spine. Wood-engraved ornamental headband pasted to verso of title-frontispiece. Paper uniformly and slightly browned, some brittleness, marginal angular loss.
Provenance
Mention of purchase 10 f. in Constantinople in 1901.
Bibliography
1. Hage Chahine, no. 347. Blackmer, 94.
See original version (French)
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