- 149
[Boissard, Jean Jacques]
Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
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Description
- Wahre Abbildungen der türckischen Kayser und persischen Fürsten Frankfurt: Johann Ammon, 1648
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Second edition in German, small 4to (186 x 145mm.), title within engraved historiated border and 47 portrait plates by Theodore de Bry after Joris Hoefnagel, each within elaborate border of flowers, insects, animals and cartouches, eighteenth-century half calf, spine gilt, [Atabey 125; Blackmer 159 (edition of 1596)], slight staining to foot of some leaves, title slightly soiled, binding slightly worn
Catalogue Note
A fine series of decorative portraits of the sultans from Osman I to Murad III and other figures such as Scanderbeg, Tammas Khuli Khan, Barbarossa, Roxelana and Pashas of the Ottoman Empire.