Author: GRELOT, Guillaume-Joseph.
Title: Relation nouvelle d'un voyage de Constantinople. Enrichie de plans levez par l'auteur sur les lieux, & des figures de tout ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable dans cette ville.
Description: Paris, Chez la veuve de D. Foucault (en la boutique de Pierre Rocolet), 1680. 4to. (25, 6x17, 5 cm.) [xii], 306, [1] pp. With 10 folding plates and 2 full-page plates. Speckled calf, gilt spine with raised bands; gilt board edges; sprinkled edges. (spine and corners repaired; later flyleaves; small repair on title; upper corner first 4 leaves lightly water stained; slightly undulating; but a very good copy) ¶ LACKING ONE plate: "View of the Salimanie Mosque of Suleiman II", but with the large panorama (28x88 cm.) "Grand Serrail de Constantinople". ¶ Guillaume Joseph Grelot (c.1630-?) was a French painter. He spent several years in the Ottoman capital, and described many sites, mainly Byzantine monuments but mosques as well. Grelot was the first to delineate Haghia Sophia in detail. He dedicated his work to King Louis XIV. ¶ "Le livre de Grelot, nettement écrit, offre encore beaucoup d'interêt; confirmé lors de son apparition par tous les voyageurs dans le Levant, il apprend bien ce qu'etait Constantinople à l'époque de l'auteur." (NBG.21/907)

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