TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689). Nouvelle relation de l'interieur du serrail du Grand Seigneur. Paris: Gervais Clouzier, 1675. 4° (221 x 155mm), engraved frontispiece. (A few rust spots.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt (joints and corners rubbed, covers chipped).
FIRST EDITION of a work based on the visits to Constantinople made during the author's first and sixth voyages, and frequently reprinted. Tavernier's dedicatory letter to Louis XIV, the monarch to whom he sold the 118-ct blue diamond in 1668, proudly claimed: 'Divers auteurs ont écrit sur le mesme suject; mais je puis dire qu'on n'a point encore donné au Public une description plus exacte ny plus veritable du Serrail'. Atabey 1199 (refers to this second copy); Blackmer 1630; Brunet V, 681.
TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689). Nouvelle relation de l'interieur du serrail du Grand Seigneur. Paris: Gervais Clouzier, 1675. 4° (221 x 155mm), engraved frontispiece. (A few rust spots.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt (joints and corners rubbed, covers chipped).
FIRST EDITION of a work based on the visits to Constantinople made during the author's first and sixth voyages, and frequently reprinted. Tavernier's dedicatory letter to Louis XIV, the monarch to whom he sold the 118-ct blue diamond in 1668, proudly claimed: 'Divers auteurs ont écrit sur le mesme suject; mais je puis dire qu'on n'a point encore donné au Public une description plus exacte ny plus veritable du Serrail'. Atabey 1199 (refers to this second copy); Blackmer 1630; Brunet V, 681.
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