Fourth edition after the original of 1577 published in Paris by Nicolas Chesneau and the edition by Abel L'Angelier printed in 1584. It is identical to the 1612 edition by Artus Thomas d'Embry, the first to contain engravings and to offer the four final texts. It is illustrated with a large folding plan of Constantinople, a double plate captioned « Portraict de l'Armée de l'Empereur Turc rangée en Bataille », 17 plates for the prophetic tableaux, 62 full-page engravings representing the different inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire (men and women) and 27 plates of portraits of Turkish personalities. Repeated title-frontispiece. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full brown calf bindings, slightly dissimilar, spines with six raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and compartments. One headcap and certain corners restored. Some worming without loss of letters to the first volume, one joint cracked at foot of volume I, last leaf of table in volume I remounted with some paper losses filled without affecting the text, otherwise a good copy.
This important collective work is composed as follows :
Volume I :
Histoire des Turcs by Chalcondyle Athénien, translated by Thomas Artus and Blaise de Vigenère
Volume II :
continuation and end of l'Histoire des Turcs by François-Eudes Mezeray
Histoire générale du Serrail by Michel Baudier
Les Annales des Sultans
Plusieurs descriptions des accoustremens des Turcs
Tableaux prophétiques des Empereurs Sévère et Léon by Artus Thomas
Illustrations de Blaise de Vigenère bourbonnois, sur l'Histoire de Chalcondile athénien
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