OTTOMAN COSTUMES

Neu-eröffnetes Amphitheatrum Turcicum,
Erfurt: Johann Michael Funcken, 1724

Folio (338 x 195mm.), [1]-172, 4pp. (index), title printed in red and black, 41 half-page woodcuts of costume of Turkey and the Levant, each framed within a decorative woodcut border, modern half calf, marbled paper boards, lightly browned

An uncommon publication from a series on world costume; this part, complete with index, illustrates Turkish and Ottoman costume. A number of the illustrations appear to derive from Le Hay and Ferriol’s Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations