CHARLES DE FERRIOL (Engravings; JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR) - RECUEIL DE CENT ESTAMPES REPRESENTANT DIFFERENTES NATIONS DU LEVANT

THE KEYSTONE OF THE OTTOMAN LIBRARY, A 308-YEAR-OLD MASTERPIECE… IN SUPER CONDITION...

IN ITS FULLY LEATHER COVER OF THE PERIOD…

A TOTAL OF 102 LARGE SIZED EARLY WOODCUT JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR ENGRAVINGS, OF WHICH 99 ARE FULL PAGE AND 3 ARE DOUBLE PAGE…

THE WORK THAT BROUGHT JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR TO FAME...

AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK, THE KING OF FRANCE XIV. LOUIS GAVE THE PAINTER VANMOUR THE TITLE OF ‘PEINTRE ORDINAIRE DU ROI EN LEVANT / THE KING'S PRIVATE PAINTER IN THE EAST’…

A COMPLETE PRINT OF 102 ENGRAVINGS IS VERY, VERY RARE…

FERRIOL REVEALS THE MOST SPECTACULAR ERA OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, THE “TULIP PERIOD”, WITH A DETAILED AND VIVID DESCRIPTION OF OTTOMAN LIFESTYLE WITH VANMOUR’S ENGRAVINGS ...

THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE ENGRAVING ALBUMS CONSISTING OF EARLY OTTOMAN CLOTHES…

THE MASTERPIECE THAT PIONEERED THE ‘TURQUERIE’ FASHION THAT HAS INFLUENCED EUROPE FOR MANY YEARS…

JEAN BAPTISTE VANMOUR, WHO CAME TO ISTANBUL IN 1699 WITH THE ENTOURAGE OF THE ARISTOCRAT AND POLITICIAN MARQUES CHARLES DE FERRIOL, PAINTED THE OTTOMAN AMBASSADOR RECEPTION CEREMONIES, THE ‘TULIP PERIOD’ ISTANBUL AND OTTOMAN CLOTHES IN FULL DETAIL… FERRIOL'S DETAILED DESCRIPTION, ACCOMPANIED BY ENGRAVINGS OF VANMOUR'S PAINTINGS, HAS GIVEN THIS MASTERPIECE THE TITLE OF A SOURCE DOCUMENTING DOCUMENTING THE OTTOMAN STATE CULTURE OF ITS PERIOD AND THE HIERARCHY WITHIN THE STATE… THE BOOK ALSO CONTAINS AN ENGRAVING OF THE SHEET MUSIC OF A COMPOSITION FOR THE DERVISHES OF PERA WRITTEN BY SIR CHABERT, WHO CAME TO ISTANBUL WITH FERRIOL…