Imperium orientale sive Antiquitates Constantinopolitanae in quatuor partes distributae; quæ ex variis scriptorum Græcorum operibus & præsertim ineditis adornatæ, commentariis, & geographicis, topographicis, aliisque quam plurimis monumentorum ac...
Estimation :
2000 / 3000
Adjudication :
2700 €
Description
nomismatum tabellis illustrantur (...).
Very rare 1st ed. of this important Greek/Latin corpus of all sources on the antiquities of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire published by Banduri (1671-1743), Benedictine scholar, archaeologist and numismatologist from the Republic of Ragusa. Engr. ills (complete) : front. by Simonneau after S. Leclerc, 6 double or folding maps (2 "Urbis Constantinopolitana", 2 "Anaplus Bosphori Thracii", "Orbis Romani descriptio" & "Imperii Orientalis"), 1 city plan of Constantinople, 7 pl. representing coins and medals engr. by Simonneau, 1 pl. outside collation picturing "Columna Cpoli" with 18 double pl. of details, 1 large folding pl. ("Veue du Grand Serail de Constantinople"), 7 double pl. ("La ville et le port de Constantinople", Soliman Mosque, Valide Mosque, the hippodrom, the Serail...), 9 full page pl. incl. alphabets; in text vignettes, head- & tail-pieces and initials, some signed Giffard; printer's device on title pages. "Banduri discovered a Greek manuscript which he translated into Latin (...) This forms the nucleus of the "Imperium Orientale", to which is added material from Grelot and Gilles, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Pachymeres, and other Byzantine texts (...) The work was an instant success. Leibnitz admired it (...)" (Atabey). Old label of a Parisian bookshop in vol. I. Ms. ownership entries dated 1616 and 1814. Stamps of a religious institution and of L.M. Duru presbyter on title pages.
Very rare 1st ed. of this important Greek/Latin corpus of all sources on the antiquities of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire published by Banduri (1671-1743), Benedictine scholar, archaeologist and numismatologist from the Republic of Ragusa. Engr. ills (complete) : front. by Simonneau after S. Leclerc, 6 double or folding maps (2 "Urbis Constantinopolitana", 2 "Anaplus Bosphori Thracii", "Orbis Romani descriptio" & "Imperii Orientalis"), 1 city plan of Constantinople, 7 pl. representing coins and medals engr. by Simonneau, 1 pl. outside collation picturing "Columna Cpoli" with 18 double pl. of details, 1 large folding pl. ("Veue du Grand Serail de Constantinople"), 7 double pl. ("La ville et le port de Constantinople", Soliman Mosque, Valide Mosque, the hippodrom, the Serail...), 9 full page pl. incl. alphabets; in text vignettes, head- & tail-pieces and initials, some signed Giffard; printer's device on title pages. "Banduri discovered a Greek manuscript which he translated into Latin (...) This forms the nucleus of the "Imperium Orientale", to which is added material from Grelot and Gilles, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Pachymeres, and other Byzantine texts (...) The work was an instant success. Leibnitz admired it (...)" (Atabey). Old label of a Parisian bookshop in vol. I. Ms. ownership entries dated 1616 and 1814. Stamps of a religious institution and of L.M. Duru presbyter on title pages.
