[Arabia]. GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGE, Georges - Lot 185

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[Arabia]. GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGE, Georges - Lot 185
[Arabia]. GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGE, Georges History of the Reign of Muhammad II, Emperor of the Turks. Paris: Denys Thierry and Claude Barbin, 1681. 2 volumes in-12, (3) ff., 510 pp., 2 pl. + 442 pp., (22) ff., 1 plate. Contemporary speckled fawn sheepskin, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt floral panels, gilt roulette on the edges, speckled edges (scuffing, worn corners, cap missing from vol. 1, wormholes on the spine, tears on the map with a small loss at the fold, upper margin of the map short, foxing on a few pages). First edition of this biography of Sultan Mehmed II. Illustrated with 3 fold-out copperplate engravings in black, including a map of Mehmed II’s conquests, a plan of Christian Constantinople, and a view of the Sublime Porte.
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