The eight volumes 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) from the year 1637, to the year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, from thence into English. And now published with a large historical preface and index to illustrate the whole. By the translator of the first volume.
Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693)
Category
Books
Date
1707
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038337
Summary
Bibliographic description
8v.. ill.. . 12mo.. Not identified in 1796 inventory. Christies, 21 June 2004, lot 634.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine-edge; blind dotted roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine (title label missing). Red and brown sprinkled edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693) William Bradshaw (fl.1700) Frederick-Hendrik van den Hove (The Hague c.1628 - London 1698). Robert Midgley (1655-1723)