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Neu-eröffnetes Amphitheatrum Turcicum, 1724

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November 12, 04:34 PM GTNN

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900 - 1,200 GBP

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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