Middle East.- Elzevir Editions Turcici imperii status seu discursus...
Middle East.- Elzevir Editions Turcici imperii status seu discursus varii de rebus Turcarum, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, [Berghman 1903. Willems 340], Elzevir, Leiden, 1630; Sionita (Gabriel) & Hesronita (Jean) Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia…, FIRST EDITION, engraved title depicting an oriental figure with turban, light browning, a little spotting, [Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2084 (erroneously '1653'); Blackmer 1544 (note); Weber II, 697; Gay 3452 (erroneously 1653); Hage Chahine 4533; Smitskamp; PO II, 188], J. Jansson, Amsterdam, 1633; with Gilles (Pierre)] De Bosforo Thracio Lib.III, first Elzevir edition, engraved title, first 2 leaves stained at margin, old shelf mark on front pastedown, [Blackmer 686; Berghman 1895; Cox I, p. 222; Willems 366], Elzevir, Leiden, 1632, all bound in contemporary limp vellum, soiled, 24mo (3) *** 1. A collection of excerpts and short works on the history of the Ottoman Empire by several writers, such as Busbecq, Soranzo, Montalbano, Malaguzzi, etc., . 2. An important collection on the Arabic civilisation, with early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca and Aleppo. It comprises three works (Sionita & Hesronita, ‘De nonnullis orientalibus urbium’; ‘De moribus atque institutis Turcarum’, by the French diplomat C. Richier, and W. Drechsler's ‘Historia Arabum’). 3. An account of the antiquities of Constantinople by Gilles (1490-1555), considered one of the founders of Byzantine archaeology.
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Middle East.- Elzevir Editions Turcici imperii status seu discursus varii de rebus Turcarum, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, [Berghman 1903. Willems 340], Elzevir, Leiden, 1630; Sionita (Gabriel) & Hesronita (Jean) Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia…, FIRST EDITION, engraved title depicting an oriental figure with turban, light browning, a little spotting, [Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2084 (erroneously '1653'); Blackmer 1544 (note); Weber II, 697; Gay 3452 (erroneously 1653); Hage Chahine 4533; Smitskamp; PO II, 188], J. Jansson, Amsterdam, 1633; with Gilles (Pierre)] De Bosforo Thracio Lib.III, first Elzevir edition, engraved title, first 2 leaves stained at margin, old shelf mark on front pastedown, [Blackmer 686; Berghman 1895; Cox I, p. 222; Willems 366], Elzevir, Leiden, 1632, all bound in contemporary limp vellum, soiled, 24mo (3) *** 1. A collection of excerpts and short works on the history of the Ottoman Empire by several writers, such as Busbecq, Soranzo, Montalbano, Malaguzzi, etc., . 2. An important collection on the Arabic civilisation, with early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca and Aleppo. It comprises three works (Sionita & Hesronita, ‘De nonnullis orientalibus urbium’; ‘De moribus atque institutis Turcarum’, by the French diplomat C. Richier, and W. Drechsler's ‘Historia Arabum’). 3. An account of the antiquities of Constantinople by Gilles (1490-1555), considered one of the founders of Byzantine archaeology.
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