Item #24081 The history of the Turkish empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677, containing the reigns of the emperours…. Paul Rycaut, Sir.
The history of the Turkish empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677, containing the reigns of the emperours…
The history of the Turkish empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677, containing the reigns of the emperours…
The history of the Turkish empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677, containing the reigns of the emperours…

The history of the Turkish empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677, containing the reigns of the emperours…

London: printed by J.M. for John Starkey, 1680. First edition, folio, pp. [6], 89; 336, [16]; engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 3 engraved portraits of Turkish emperors and another engraved plate of a Turkish pageant; full contemporary calf, recased and rebacked to match, gilt lettering direct on spine; clean tear in bottom margin of frontis, neatly closed on recto, but generally a good, sound copy, or better. In 1661 Rycaut "was sent to Turkey as secretary in the embassy of Heneage Finch, second earl of Winchilsea. He was attached to the Porte about six years, and during that period twice travelled to England" (DNB). "Rycaut, from his long residence and connection with the Embassy, was well qualified to delineate Levantine customs … [His] History is regarded as one of the best of its kind with respect to the religious and military state of Turkey" (Cox I, 210). "An extremely important and influential work, which provides the fullest account of Ottoman affairs during the 17th century" (Blackmer 1463). Wing R2406; Atabey R2406. Item #24081

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