165 - [Turkey]. [CHASSEPOL, François de].

[Turkey]. [CHASSEPOL, François de]. History of the Grand Viziers Muhammad Coprogli Pasha and Ahmet Coprogli Pasha... Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1676. Small 12mo, (6) folios, 303-(9) pp., 1 plate. Fine, finely grained havana calfskin binding of the period, decorated ribbed spine, gilt title (binding worn with losses, foxing, short plate margins, one corner heavily worn). Rare first edition; a second edition was published in Amsterdam the same year. Includes the panoramic fold-out plate, “Map of the Cotzchim Camp,” engraved in black on copper, illustrating a bird’s-eye view of the Battle of Khotin during the Polish-Turkish War in the 17th century. Complete edition in a single volume. The account discusses Mehmed Pasha and Ahmed Pasha, of the Köprülü family, Grand Vizier from 1656 to 1676 under Mehmed IV, and the defeat inflicted on the Ottoman armies by Jan Sobieski at the Battle of Khotin (Moldavia, November 11, 1673). Missing from Atabey and Blackmer. Barbier, II, 752. Willems, 1899. Also included: MIRONE (pseudonym of LAMBERT DE SAUMERY). Venetian or Turkish Anecdotes, or New Memoirs of the Count of Bonneval, from His Arrival in Venice to His Exile on the Island of Chios in March 1739. Published in Utrecht by Jean Broedelet, 1740. 2 small 12mo volumes, frontispiece, (10)-218 pp. and 216 pp., title in red and black. Marbled havana sheepskin of the period, decorated ribbed spine, fawn-colored title labels and volume numbers, speckled edges (corners and caps rubbed, small angular loss of leather on the upper cover of Volume II, upper hinge of Volume I split 1 cm, minor marginal foxing). Utrecht edition published the same year as the original. A work less common or well-known than the Memoirs of the aforementioned figure. Illustrated with a frontispiece depicting Osman Pasha or the Count of Bonneval, engraved in black on copper by J. Broedelet after F. van Bleyswyk. A singular figure of the 18th century and an adventurer with a turbulent life, the Count of Bonneval left the service of the European armies to join that of the Ottoman Empire. Converted to Islam in Turkey under the name Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha, he took part in the wars against Austria, in whose service he had previously fought. Blackmer, 945. Atabey, 130.