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LOUIS DES HAYES, BARON DE COURMENIN (c.1592-1632)
Voiage de Levant fait par le Commandement du Roy en l'annee 1621. Paris: Adrian Taupinart, 1624. 4° (225 x 175mm). Engraved title, folding plan of Jerusalem and 5 double-page charts and plans, 5 illustrations in the text, all but one full-page. (Map of Jerusalem with old repair to defective key with missing letters supplied in old ink manuscript and with other old paper repairs to verso but without further loss, small marginal wormhole at gutter from beginning extending through to gathering H just into one text-illustration, marginal paper-flaw to Yy2 variable browning and light staining.) Contemporary vellum (soiled and rubbed, lacking ties).
FIRST EDITION OF DESHAYES' ACCOUNT OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. '[It] provides... a clear account of the structure of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the most complete description yet recorded of the Seraglio' (Blackmer). Atabey 344; Blackmer 479 (second edition).
Voiage de Levant fait par le Commandement du Roy en l'annee 1621. Paris: Adrian Taupinart, 1624. 4° (225 x 175mm). Engraved title, folding plan of Jerusalem and 5 double-page charts and plans, 5 illustrations in the text, all but one full-page. (Map of Jerusalem with old repair to defective key with missing letters supplied in old ink manuscript and with other old paper repairs to verso but without further loss, small marginal wormhole at gutter from beginning extending through to gathering H just into one text-illustration, marginal paper-flaw to Yy2 variable browning and light staining.) Contemporary vellum (soiled and rubbed, lacking ties).
FIRST EDITION OF DESHAYES' ACCOUNT OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. '[It] provides... a clear account of the structure of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the most complete description yet recorded of the Seraglio' (Blackmer). Atabey 344; Blackmer 479 (second edition).
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