I TURCHI by Arbasino, Alberto - 1971

Parma: Franco Maria Ricci, Editore, 1971. First edition (hardback), limited to 2500 numbered copies (this is copy number 2352). 4to (35cm x 24cm), 201pp. Numerous colour plates. Original black cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, colour plate inlaid on the front board, black clamshell box. The book is in excellent condition; the slipcase is in very good condition (lightly rubbed). Text in Italian. I segni dell'uomo, tomo 11.

Parma, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci Editore, 1971. Hardcover. VG (Light sunning to spine; Some plates slightly discolored at edges; scuffing to slipcase; but generally a very good copy). Cardboard slipcase covered in black cloth; Black cloth over boards with color plate affixed to front cover; Gilt titling to spine and front cover; Illustrated endpapers; 200 pp.; 63 color plates tipped in. Text in Italian; Introduction by Franz Unterkircher; A collection of writings about the Turks and Turkey, including pieces by Pietro della Valle, Giuseppe Gorani, Giovanni Battista Casti, Carlo Porta, Gerard de Nerval, Antonio Stoppani, Pierre Loti, Maurice Barres, and others active in the last four centuries. Accompanies a set of plates commissioned by von Pezzen, an ambassdor to Constantinople from 1586 to 1591; The plates and writings depict scenes of life in Istanbul, long a source of curiosity to Europeans. Beautiful, vivid color plates.