The first volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy, . who lived five and forty years, undiscover'd, at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe; and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, first translated into Italian, afterwards into French, and now into English.
Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693)
Category
Books
Date
1693
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005317.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
vol.1: [22], 175, 192-376p. ill. port. (metal cut) ; 12mo. Running number: 1241. Shelved with vols. 2-8 of the 6th ed., 1707-1708. Signatures B5-B8 and K5-K8 loose. Binding: late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century full sprinkled brown calf over boards with double blind fillet to form a border. Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Four false raised bands; undecorated spine. Two colour endbands. Two supports laced in; pastedown and endpaper at both ends. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693), author Daniel Saltmarsh, translator