[PROPHECIES - OTTOMAN EMPIRE].
Prophetien, of voorseggingen der beyde Keyseren Severi en Leonis, die beyde in Orienten gheregeert hebben. In de welcke het hem laet aensien als of het Turcksche Rijck onder desen teghenwoordigen Sultan wel een eynde mocht nemen. Hier sijn byghevoeght eenighe andere Vooorseggingen ... ende met veele copere figuyren verciert.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1627. 4to. With 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. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco, with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Victor Masséna, 5th Prince dEssling and 3rd Duke of Rivoli (1836-1910) on both boards, the title, impressum and (repeatedly) the monogram "VM" lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by the 19th-century French bookbinders Allô-Wampflug (signed in the lower turn-ins at the front and back). [1], [1 blank], [2], 41, [2], [1 blank] pp.
€ 3,950
First Dutch edition of the divinations of the Byzantine Emperors Severus (probably Lucius Septimius Severus, 145-211 CE) and Leo VI the Wise (866-912 CE) on the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century. A second edition with the same plates appeared with the same publisher in 1640. The work is a separately published part of Historie, van den oorsprongh, geslacht, geboorte, opvoedinge, en leere des grooten valschen progheets Mahomets ... also published by Broer Jansz in Amsterdam in 1627 and 1640. The 16 engravings are after the illustrations in the Codex of the Oracula of Leo Sapiens in the Amsterdam University Library (MS 16).
This copy was bound for Victor Masséna, 5th Prince dEssling and 3rd Duke of Rivoli (1836-1910) by the famous 19th-century French bookbinders Allô-Wampflug. Masséna was a French army officer, a member of Parliament for the Grasse constituency (Alpes-Maritimes) from 1863 to 1871, a Knight of the Légion d'honneur in 1859, and a bibliophile and scholar.
With a small inscription on the verso of the first flyleaf ("1847"), washed. Overall in very good condition. Livres à figures prov. De la biblioth. Du Prince dEssling. Vol. 2 (1939), no. 228; STCN 841466505; USTC 1029656; Waller, no. 1389.
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