NICOLAS DU LOIR (fl.1654) Les Voyage [sic] du Sieur du Loir ensemble de ce qui se passa la mort du seu Sultan Mourat dans le Serrail, les ceremonies de ses funerailles; & celles de l' avenement l' Empire de Sultan Hibraim son frere, qui luy succeda. Avec la relation du Siege de Babylone fait en 1639 par Sultan Mourat . Paris: Francois Clouzier, 1654. 4° (209 x 155mm). Errata leaf at end. Wood engraved device on title, initials, head- and tailpieces. (Title with large old repair but not affecting text or device, light browning and soiling, heavier to title and preliminary leaves,.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine (rubbed, joints splitting but holding). Provenance : M. de Lavalle (ink inscription dated 1675 mentioning this name on S1) -- J. Hawkins (18th-century ink ownership inscription on front pastedown) -- G. Helbig (late 19th-century booklabel). FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK RELATING TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST . Du Loir, whose first name is only known through a contemporary manuscript inscription in the copy at the Bodleian, travelled to Constantinople in 1639 in the retinue of the French ambassador to the Porte, Jean de la Haye The work is a collection of 10 letters addressed to high-ranking Frenchmen, and is of interest not only in regards to his voyage to Constantinople, and the various peoples and customs he encountered, but also for his transliterations into the Latin alphabet and the translation into French of various Ottoman and Arabic texts. These include verses from the Koran (5th letter) and Dija ed-Din Ibrahim's narrative of the siege of Bagdad in 1639 (8th letter). The present work is the second issue, with the verse on e4v. Atabey 374; Blackmer 511 (variant title); Koç 58.
NICOLAS DU LOIR (fl.1654) Les Voyage [sic] du Sieur du Loir ensemble de ce qui se passa la mort du seu Sultan Mourat dans le Serrail, les ceremonies de ses funerailles; & celles de l' avenement l' Empire de Sultan Hibraim son frere, qui luy succeda. Avec la relation du Siege de Babylone fait en 1639 par Sultan Mourat . Paris: Francois Clouzier, 1654. 4° (209 x 155mm). Errata leaf at end. Wood engraved device on title, initials, head- and tailpieces. (Title with large old repair but not affecting text or device, light browning and soiling, heavier to title and preliminary leaves,.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine (rubbed, joints splitting but holding). Provenance : M. de Lavalle (ink inscription dated 1675 mentioning this name on S1) -- J. Hawkins (18th-century ink ownership inscription on front pastedown) -- G. Helbig (late 19th-century booklabel). FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK RELATING TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST . Du Loir, whose first name is only known through a contemporary manuscript inscription in the copy at the Bodleian, travelled to Constantinople in 1639 in the retinue of the French ambassador to the Porte, Jean de la Haye The work is a collection of 10 letters addressed to high-ranking Frenchmen, and is of interest not only in regards to his voyage to Constantinople, and the various peoples and customs he encountered, but also for his transliterations into the Latin alphabet and the translation into French of various Ottoman and Arabic texts. These include verses from the Koran (5th letter) and Dija ed-Din Ibrahim's narrative of the siege of Bagdad in 1639 (8th letter). The present work is the second issue, with the verse on e4v. Atabey 374; Blackmer 511 (variant title); Koç 58.
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