Chalcocondyles (Laonicus) Histoire Generale des Turcs, 2 vol., half-titles, additional engraved titles, printed titles in red and black, vol.1 with 20 full-page engraved portraits, vol.2 with 5 full-page engraved portraits (one with ink annotations at foot), folding engraved plan of Constantinople (torn), folding woodcut plate of the Turkish army, 81 full page engraved illustrations of costumes and allegorical subjects, one with short tear, one with small hole, vol.1 water-staining, heavier towards end, occasional light foxing and browning, corner of c3 vol.2 defective with slight loss of side-notes, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, joints, corners and spine ends worn, [Atabey 214, copy lacked the folding woodcut plate], folio, Paris, Augustin Courbe, 1662.
⁂ "These collected editions of Chalcocondyles' history are especially important as the vehicle by which Nicolay's Levantine costume plates became known..." (Atabey).
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