Neu-eröffnetes Amphitheatrum Turcicum, 1724

TURKISH COSt.mes

Neu-eröffnetes Amphitheatrum Turcicum. Erfurt: Johann Michael Funcken, 1724

Folio (338 x 195mm.), [1]-172, 4pp. (index), title printed in red and black, 41 half-page woodcuts of cost.mes of Turkey and the Levant, each framed within a decorative woodcut border, modern half calf, marbled paper boards, lightly browned

An uncommon publication from a series on world cost.mes ; this part, complete with index, illustrates Turkish and Ottoman cost.mes . A number of the illustrations appear to derive from Le Hay and Ferriol's Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant (1714).

LITERATURE:

Colas 2187; Lipperheide 35; not in Atabey or Blackmer