Lot 3301
  • 3301

Türckische und Ungarische Chronica,

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • oder kurtze historische Beschreibung aller deren zwischen dem hochloblichsten Ertz-Hauß Oesterreich... und dann dem... Türcken. Nuremberg: Christoff Gerhard for Paul Fürst, 1663
folio (312 x 198mm.), [6], 314, [6]pp., title-page printed in red and black, one folding table at p.314, illustration: engraved allegorical title, and 64 plates with 171 numbered illustrations, comprising 30 full-page town views or battles, 17 portraits, 3 plates with 2 views on each, 13 plates with 9 portraits on each and one other plate, woodcut initials and tailpieces, extra-illustrated: with 64 engraved plates of Turkish officials and subjects by C. Weigel (captioned in German and numbered 1-64), mostly trimmed to image and mounted (see footnote), binding: eighteenth-century German half calf, spine gilt in compartments, small hole in both titles, tear in folding table, plate 24 (town view) laid down (with slight loss of a few letters), plate 4 (costume plate) with slight loss to caption, binding rubbed at edges

Literature

VD17 23:231968Z

Catalogue Note

The 64 additional plates of Ottoman officials and subjects are reversed and greatly reduced copies after the engravings of Le Hay and Ferriol which were published as Receuil de cent estampes... qui représentent les costumes des differentes nations du Levant (Paris, 1714-1715), a copy of which is included in the present sale (see lot 3195).