59. "Istoria Imperiului Otoman" ("History of the Ottoman Empire") by Dimitrie Cantemir, German, Hamburg, 1745, with 22 engravings, illustrating the portraits of the sultans, collectible

Starting price

EUR 2.000

Sold

EUR 3.750

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Tue, 21 November 2023 19:00

This copy is complete. The binding is made of cardboard plates wrapped in greenish paper, with leather on the book spine and in the corners. It is a modern binding, decorated with motifs of typographical composition. The title of the book is printed on the book spine: "Kantemir, Geschichte des osmanische Reichs". The copy contains no markings regarding the readers or the ownership. The book is an editorial colligatum, being translated from English into German by Johann Laurent Schmid and printed by Christian Herold. The copy belongs to the German edition Geschichte des Osmanischen Reichs. Regarding the succession of the pages, an engraving of the diagram of Constantinople is found at the beginning, by C. Fritzsch, title page, 1 sheet only printed on the back, p. 1-12, with text continued from p. 11 to 64 + 852 pages + 1 sheet, with the erratum only printed on the front. The book contains all 22 lithographs of the sultans’ portraits, owing to the engravers Martin Tyroff and Georg-Daniel Heumann.

References

BRV II, p. 238

Dimensions

width 22.5 cm, height 26.5 cm

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