Author: Nicolay d'Arfeuille, Nicolas; ArtusThomas Sieur d'Embry Parisien
Title: Plusieurs Descriptions Des Accoustremens Tant Des Magistrats Et Officiers de la Porte de L'Empereur Des Turcs, Que Des Peuples Assujectis à Son Empire. Avec Les Figures Qui Representent, le Tout Au Naturel, Ttirées Des Medailles Antiques & Descriptions de Ceux Qui Ont Frequenté Parmy Ces Nations, Ou Des Bons Autheurs Qui En Ont Escrit. [with] Tableaux Prophetiques Des Empereurs Severe Et Leon Avec Leurs Epigrammes Predisans la Ruyne de la Monarch Des Turcs. First Edition
Description: [Paris: Guillemot, 1632]. Folio. 23.5 x 37.5 cm. Later gilt paneled multicolor calf and goatskin. 64 numbered leaves with facing full page engravings followed by pages numbered 65-120, with 16 engraved plates. Very good.. Numerous full page engravings, no. 60/61 repeated (identifying this as Guillemot's 1632 Paris edition),; marginal worming, repaired; OCLC Numbers: 83490314 and 765060868; [Colas 2207 (note); Hage Chahine 860; not in Hiler or Lipperheide] .... This book is part of the French edition of Laonicus Chalcocondyles' work entitled L'histoire de la decadence de l'Empire grec, etc. The descriptions of the Ottoman and Arabian costumes are based on the account of Nicolas Nicolay d'Arfeuille and on the Byzantine prophecies of Thomas Artus, Sieur d Embry (c. 1550-after 1614), who is known for his satirical take on the French court, Les Hermaphrodites..Nicolay's series of engravings of Turkish magistrates and officers (including descriptions) followed by Thomas' collection of emblems, prophesying the fall of the Ottoman empire, as published in the 1620 edition of Laonikos Chalcocondyle's L'Histoire de la décadence de l'Empire Grec. It doesn't have any date or publisher's information itself, but has the same pagination errors described in the copy of Chalcocondyle in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin ("Bl. 32 als 23 gez. und Bl. 64 doppelt gez."). This history concentrates on the later period of the Byzantine empire and was first published in Latin in 1556. The enlarged French translation with additions by Artus Thomas first appeared 1612 and was possibly reissued in 1616 and 1620. The original costume plates by Nicolas Nicolay were first published in Nicolay's work Les navigations peregrinations et voyages, faicts en la Turquie (Lyon, 1567). It was translated into various languages and left a deep mark on later publications on the same topic. Its success was largely due to the 60 (later expanded to 62) illustrations of the different costumes worn in the area Nicolay visited. Subsequent works on the Turcs also included Nicolay's illustrations, in woodcuts or engraved after the originals as in the Chalcocondyle's edition of 1612..Laonicus Chalcondyles (c. 1430-c. 1490) was a Greek historian from Athens, son of Georgios and cousin of Demetrios Chalcocondyles. After his father's dispute with the Florentine Duke of Athens, Nerio II Acciaioli, Chalcondyles and his family moved to the Peloponnese. According to the testimony of Ciriaco Anconitano, he lived in Mystras, at the court of Constantine Palaiologos, who was to be the last Byzantine emperor, and was a pupil of philosopher Georgius Gemistus Pletho. Following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, Chalcondyles sought refuge in Italy, where he stayed until his death. .

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