[DISCOVERING COMMON ORIGINS – "ORIENTAL" STUDIES AVANT LA LETTRE DURING THE GREAT TURKISH WAR] Insignia Turcica: ex variis superstitionum tenebris, Orientalium Maxime Populorum, Gemina Disquisitione Academica, In Illustri Salana, nunc primum in lucem protracta [Turkish insignia: drawn forth for the first time into the light from the various darknesses of superstitions, especially of the Oriental peoples, by means of a double academic dissertation at the illustrious University of Jena].
Jena: Collegium Musarum Krebsianum, [ca. 1685]. Small quarto (18.6 × 16.3 cm). Spine covered with later strip of decorative paper; [4], 88 pp. with woodcut title vignette, seven small woodcuts, one copper engraving, and two woodcut initials in the text. First and leaf with minor dust-soiling; else very good. First..... More