Ethnographic, Travel & Exploration

42x37 cm

MARIAGE DES TURCS & DES ARMENIENS AVEC LA MANIERE DONT SE FONT LES DEMONSTRATIONS D'AMOUR EN CE PAYS LA & L'YUSGE PRATIQUÉ PAR LES FEMMES TURCQUES POUR PRENDRE LE BAIN & PUR FUMER.

Hand coloured engraving from Chatelain's Atlas Historique published from 1705 to 1720.
Five vignettes:
 MANIERE DONT LES TURCS CELEBRENT LEUR MARIAGE. (How Turks celebrate their weddings) TURC AMOUREUX. (Turkish demonstration of love.)
DAME TURCQUE QUI SORT DU BAIN. (Turkish woman after her bath.)
FEMME TURCQUE QUI FUME. (Turkish woman smoking.)
FILLES ARMIENNES QUI VONT A L'EGLISE POUR SE MARIER. (How Armenian girls go to church to get married.)

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) was a Dutch cartographer who lived in Paris, London [c.1710], The Hague [c.1721] and Amsterdam [c.1728], and is best known for this publication, a huge seven volume work containing mainly geographical engravings and descriptions but including historical, genealogical and historical information.

Repair to lower centrefold split into text description otherwise very good in fine hand colour.