NICOLAS DE NICOLAY - LE NAVIGATIONI ET VIAGGI FATTI NELLA TURCHIA

Francesco Ziletti, Venice, 1580. 192 pp., 31x21 cm, 66 full-page early wooden cliché engravings. The completely renovated leather-covered hard cover skin has yellowing and some spots on the pages, including the imprint page, 20 of which are engraving pages, have been repaired. Atabey 871, Blackmer 1196, Weber 168.

A TRAVELOGUE OF THE TRIPS MADE BY NICOLAS DE NICOLAY, THE GEOGRAPHER OF KING HENRY II OF FRANCE, WHO WAS APPOINTED AMBASSADOR TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN 1551, ON THE OTTOMAN LANDS, FAMOUS FOR HIS ENGRAVINGS, WHICH ARE HIS OWN DRAWINGS… FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, DATED 1580… VERY VERY RARE… A 442-YEAR-OLD BOOK… 66 EARLY ENGRAVING…

THE FIRST OTTOMAN CLOTHING ENGRAVINGS PRINTED... THE BOOK CONTAINING THE FIRST ENGRAVINGS ABOUT THE CLOTHING OF THE PEOPLE IN THE OTTOMAN MOSAIC, IN THEIR PERIOD INCREASED ATTENTION TO TURKISH CLOTHING IN EUROPE…

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