Item #2843 Le Seraskier Bacha. Nouvelle du temps. Contenant ce qui s’est passé au Siège de Bude. Jean de Préchac.
Le Seraskier Bacha. Nouvelle du temps. Contenant ce qui s’est passé au Siège de Bude.
Novel Set During the Siege of Buda (1684)

Le Seraskier Bacha. Nouvelle du temps. Contenant ce qui s’est passé au Siège de Bude.

A Paris: Chez G. Blaegart, Court-neuve du Palais, au Dauphin, M. DC. LXXXV 1685. First editon. In contemporary leather. Spine with raised bands, gilt compartments and title vignette. [8] 256 p. Contemporary shelfmark on inner front panel. Contemporary ownership inscription on title page. Binding somewhat worn at extremities. Inside clean and firm. Overall in very good condition.


Scarce first edition of Préchac’s novel placed in the time of the First Siege of Buda in 1684.
Jean de Préchac’s (1647–1720) novel of love and friendship. A love story between Zouglan, the Pasha Seraskir and Zaratima. Préchac’s second novel featuring Emeric Thököly as a main character, its description of the First Siege of Buda in 1684 is historically accurate. The book was an immediate success, and an English, German, and Italian translation appeared in the same year as the present French first edition.
Apponyi II. 1201.

Price: €2,000.00

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