Jean-Antoine GUER

Second edition, published one year after the first, published by Coustelier in Paris. It is illustrated with 30 plates outside the text including two frontispieces engraved by Duflos after Boucher and Hallé and three folding views: the Hellespont and the Propontis, the city and port of Constantinople and a view of the grand seraglio of Constantinople. The plates represent scenes of daily life: prisoner, charity for animals, prayer, religious figures and places of worship, marriage, burial, noble figures (vizir, sultana, grand lord, bostangi, muphti, chiaou, capigi), punishments and historical scenes. Numerous ornate headpieces and decorated initials and tailpieces.
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