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The Ottoman Empire from a beautiful French miniature perspective

CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent.
Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Avec des éclaircissemens tirés d'ouvrages orientaux, et communiqués par M. Langlès.

75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold.

75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold.

75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold.

75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold.

75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold.



Paris, Nepveu, 1812. 6 volumes. 18mo. Contemporary black morocco, spines gilt, sides with blind tooled floral border and gilt corner ornaments, gilt inner dentelles over marbled endpapers, g.e. 75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold. 20, XXXI, (1), 120; (4), 225, (3); (4), 251, (1); (4), 282, (2); (4), 231, (1); (4), 235, (1) pp.

Series of 6 volumes on the customs, habits and costumes of the people inhabiting the Ottoman Empire. The work gives an elaborate account of the history, emperors, people, religion, arts and professions, richly illustrated with detailed hand-coloured full-page engravings.
The French publisher Nepveu, published a series of books with similar descriptions of different countries and regions of the world. In total 25 regions and countires were described and published, starting in 1811 with La Chine en miniature by Breton de la Martinière in 4 vols. and ending in 1823 with Buénos-Ayres et Le Paraguay by F. Denis in 2 vols. In 1815 a German edition appeared in 3 8vo-volumes and an English edition was published in 1821 by Shoberl as the division Turkey in his series The world in miniature.
The present French work was produced in 3 states: coloured, uncoloured and coloured on vellum. Of the copies printed on vellum only 2 are known. Colas, Lipperheide, Hage Chahine as well as Atabey and Blackmer (73) all mention copies with only 72 plates as is called for on the title-page; our copy has 75 plates.

Beautiful set with bookplates of Lord Northwick pasted on inside front cover of each volume.
Atabey 204; Colas 545; Lipperheide 1427; Blackmer 300; Hage Chahine 820; not in Chadenat.

Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey 

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