[MUHAMMAD].
Historie, van den oorspronck, geslacht, geboorte, opvoedinge, en leere des grooten valschen propheets Mahomets. Als mede, hoe hy zijn secte onder de menschen gestroyt: en van die aenghenomen is, en wat eynde hy slefs genomen heeft. Mitsgaders, hoe verre en breet hy zijn rijck onder de Turcken verbreydet heeft: en wat van den Roomsche Keyseren Leone en Severo tot op dese tegenwoordige tijt toe daer af voorseyt is.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1627.
With: (2) [PROPHECIES - OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. Prophetien, of voorseggingen der beyde Keyseren Severi en Leonis, die beyde in Orienten gheregeert hebben. ...
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1627. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved title page, depicting ten different scenes including nine based on illustrations by De Bry, only the scene of the Ottoman army at the head of the title is not from De Bry. These nine De Bry illustrations are also repeated, in larger format and greater detail, throughout the work. Further with a small ornament on the title page and several woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with a large woodcut on the title page showing the Ottomans reaching Constantinople, and 16 engravings in the text with emblematic scenes featuring sultans, including Mehmet II and Sulaiman I, animals such as unicorns, nursing bears, eagles, ravens, wolves, snakes, mythological figures, rulers, etc. Each plate is followed by an epigram and explanation. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold. [1], [1 blank], [4], 119, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 41, [2], [1 blank] pp.
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