Poitiers, Enguibert de Marnef, 1560.

- Histoire et considération de l'origine, loy, et coustumes des Tartares, Persiens, Arabes, Turcs, & tous autres Ismaelites ou Muhamediques, dits par nous Mahometains, ou Sarrazins.

Poitiers, Enguibert de Marnef, 1560.

- La tierce partie des orientales histoires, ou est exposée la condition, Puissance, & revenu de l'Empire Turquesque : avec toutes les provinces & païs generalement depuis 950 ans en çà par tous Ismaelites conquis...

Poitiers, Enguibert de Marnef, 1560.

3 parts in 1 small 4to volume [205 x 146 mm] of: I/ (1) bl.l., (4) ll., 127 pp., (1) bl.p. ; II/ 57 pp., (3) bl. pp ; III/ (4) ll., 90 pp., (1) bl.l., suite of 56 full-page numbered engravings (out of 57) bound together, (1) bl.l. Bound in full contemporary brown granite-like calf, triple gilt fillet on the covers, spine ribbed and finely decorated, red edges. Binding from the 18th century.

Rare first edition of these three books known under the general title of "La République des Turcs", composed by the orientalist Guillaume Postel (1510-1581).

Brunet, IV, 839; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, 424; Fairfax Murray, French, n°454 (for the second edition).

It is "one of the best documented works about the Ottoman society during Renaissance" (M. Bertaud, Les Grandes Peurs, II, p. 295).

"Guillaume Postel (1505-1581) is one of the most erudite man in his time and a famous visionary. His passion for the study was great; but misery compelled him to leave…

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