Turkey.- Ottoman Empire.- Nicolay (Nicolas de) The Navigations, peregrinations

Turkey.- Ottoman Empire.- Nicolay (Nicolas de) The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, translated by Thomas Washington, first edition in English, title within typographic border, 60 full page woodcut illustrations each within typographic border, woodcut initials and decorations, bookplates of William Curtis and King Lawrence Parker to front pastedown and endpaper, title laid down, B6 illustration with marginal closed tear, a few pp. trimmed close at upper and lower margins, touching or shaving Sig. letters and headings at times, a couple of small marginal holes to [par.]2 - A2, some surface soiling and a few nicks and spots, contemporary straight grain blind-stamped green morocco, rebacked preserving old spine, spine darkened, some wear to joints, a little rubbed, g.e., [Blackmer 1197; ESTC S113220], 4to, Thomas Dawson, 1585. *** A very rare early travel account by Nicholas de Nicolay—artist and geographer—who left his native France at the age of twenty-five and spent sixteen years travelling across Europe. In 1551 he joined the French embassy to Constantinople, sent by Henry II of France to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent in an effort to renew the Franco-Ottoman alliance. First published in French in 1567, the account combines first-hand observation with a broader survey of the Ottoman Empire and was rapidly translated into several European languages. Its sixty costume plates proved highly influential and circulated widely during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, offering a European perspective on Ottoman society.

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