27 - BAUDIER, Michel. A General History of the Seraglio and the Court of the Great Lord, Emperor of the Turks, in Which One Sees the Image of Ottoman Grandeur, a Portrait of Human Passions, and Examples of the Vicissitudes of Prosperity at Court.

BAUDIER, Michel. A General History of the Seraglio and the Court of the Great Lord, Emperor of the Turks, in Which One Sees the Image of Ottoman Grandeur, a Portrait of Human Passions, and Examples of the Vicissitudes of Prosperity at Court. A rare 17th-century edition, in a beautiful vellum binding, of this history of the Grand Turk’s seraglio. Rouen, Jean Osmont the Younger, 1638. In-16, full vellum, spine with two false raised bands and title inscribed in ink. 6 unnumbered folios (preface and summaries) + 8 unnumbered folios (tables) + 115 pages. Water stains; title page restored and reattached to a cardboard sheet; some other leaves similarly restored. A new edition of this moralistic history of the Grand Turk’s harem, depicting the effects of greatness on human passions and the vicissitudes of fortune. Michel Baudier describes the sultan’s Muslim princes, the sultan’s wives confined within the harem, and the palaces of Constantinople. Bound together with *The History of the Court of the King of China*, by the same Michel Baudier. In good condition, in a beautiful contemporary vellum binding.