BAUDIER, Michel (c. 1589-1645). Histoire generalle du serrail et de la cour du Grand Seigneur Empereur des Turcs ... Ensemble l'histoire de la cour du roy de la Chine. Paris: Claude Cramoisy, 1624. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (240 x 169mm), engraved frontispiece by I. Picart, engraved title vignette to part two. (Ink erasure at upper margin of frontispiece, some heavy dampstains, heavy browning to quires H, N-O, and quire E in second part, occasional spotting, without blank H2). Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt and with the cypher "LL" at corners, flat spine with title and repeated cypher within gilt-ruled compartment, gilt edges (rubbed, upper joints cracking slightly, corners bumped). Provenance: L.L. (binding) -- J.J. Courmette (ownership signature on title).

BAUDIER, Michel (c. 1589-1645). Histoire generalle du serrail et de la cour du Grand Seigneur Empereur des Turcs ... Ensemble l'histoire de la cour du roy de la Chine. Paris: Claude Cramoisy, 1624. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (240 x 169mm), engraved frontispiece by I. Picart, engraved title vignette to part two. (Ink erasure at upper margin of frontispiece, some heavy dampstains, heavy browning to quires H, N-O, and quire E in second part, occasional spotting, without blank H2). Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt and with the cypher "LL" at corners, flat spine with title and repeated cypher within gilt-ruled compartment, gilt edges (rubbed, upper joints cracking slightly, corners bumped). Provenance: L.L. (binding) -- J.J. Courmette (ownership signature on title).

FIRST EDITION of the royal historiographer's second work on Turkey, popular enough to reach five editions by 1652, and be included in volume II of Chalcondyle's Histoire général des Turcs. Atabey 70: 'Baudier's account of the Serrail, in its numerous editions, contributed greatly to the exotic qualities of the French conception of the Turk' (refers to this second copy); not in Blackmer.