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CONTINENTAL BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

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Lot 128

JEHANNOT (GUILAUME)
Voyage de Constantinople, pour le rachapt des captifs, FIRST EDITION, Paris, La V. Delormel, and René Josse, 1732

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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JEHANNOT (GUILAUME)

Voyage de Constantinople, pour le rachapt des captifs, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map of Troy, contemporary French dark green morocco gilt, covers with wide elaborately tooled border enclosing central Royal arms of Louis XV, spine tooled within 6 compartments, one lettered "Voyage de Constant", g.e., gilt and polychrome patterned endpapers of flowers and birds [Atabey 617, lacking map; Blackmer 871, lacking map; Weber 508], 8vo, Paris, La V. Delormel, and René Josse, 1732

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Finely bound copy of the first and only edition of an account of Constantinople and Turkish life. The author had been sent to the Levant to ransom Christians taken captive by pirates, and the work contains a list of captives' names, and the number of years they spent in slavery. This copy includes the map of Troy, missing from both the Atabey and Blackmer copies.

Provenance: Henri Lavedan (1859-1940), bookplate.

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