1684 OTTOMAN Empire 1ed Viziers Sultans Kaymakam PERSIA Turkey FRENCH Arms

1684 OTTOMAN Empire 1^ed Viziers Sultans Kaymakam PERSIA Turkey FRENCH Arms

Francois Petis de la Croix was a 17^th-century French scholar who was famous for his studies in orientalism. He traveled extensively throughout the Middle east, studying in Syria, Persia, and Turkey. His memoirs proved to be one of the best first-hand resources on the Ottoman Empire, the Kaymakam and sultans, Jews in the Middle East, Grand Vizier Ahmed Koproli, and so much more!

Item number: #27126

Price: $599

CROIX, Francois Petis de

Mémoires du sieur de la Croix… contenant diverses relations très curieuses de l’Empire Othoman

Paris: Claude Barbin, 1684.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages;
  • Vol 2: [4], 398, [18]
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Coat of arms of the Jubert de Bouville family
  • Possibly Michel André Jubert de Bouville (1645-1720), a French state councilor and intendant of Orléans. He was raised to the marquisate and built the family’s estate, Chateau de Bizy.
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.75in x 4in (17cm x 10cm)
• Quite rare

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