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TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- LE ROUGE, GEORGE-LOUIS (fl. 1740-80).
TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- LE ROUGE, GEORGE-LOUIS (fl. 1740-80). Cartes des Troubles de l'Est. Paris: 1770. Oblong folio. Letterpress title on upper wrapper, 14 engraved maps (of 15, lacking map 12), hand coloured in outline, 2 folding, (Some worm holes affecting maps and upper right corner). Original blue wrappers (lower wrapper clearly torn). J.B.Homann. Accurate Vorstellung der Orientalisch Kayserlichen Haupt und Residenz Stadt Constantinopel. Nuremberg: [1724]. Hand-coloured engraved map of the Bosphorus, with uncoloured panorama of Istanbul below. (Light browning of margins, creased along centre fold); together with 9 other hand-coloured 18th century maps of the Ottoman Empire including; Schenk and Valk. Natolia, quae olim Asia Minor; Nouveau Theatre de la Guerre entre les Turcs et les Russes ; M.Seutter Theatrum selli sive nova et accurata Turcocarum; Homann Heirs. Carte de l'Asie Mineure , 1745; and a series of five maps of the Dardanelles, c.1788, issued to illustrate the Turco-Russian War, 1787-88 (11)