The present state of the Ottoman Empire. . Containing the maxims of the Turkish polity; the most material points of the Mahometan religion; their sects and heresies; their convents and religious votaries; their military discipline: with an exact computation of their forces both by sea and land. In three books. By Sir Paul Rycaut, ...
Sir Paul Rycaut (1628-1700)
Category
Books
Date
1687
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3042908
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],104,[2]p . fol.. Dedication to Henry Arlington is bound after the second leaf of the second item in this volume (Wing R2407). Bound as part of vol. 2 of Rycaut's translation of Knolles's Turkish history. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: M7 [pencil, mid-18C, in vol. 1]; M/2 [pencil]; 687/3 [pencil, in vol. 1]; G.5.18-19 [black ink]. Provenance: Armorial gilt centrepiece: [Anonymous, with motto Prodesse quam conspici = John Lord Sommers (1651-1716)]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) in vol. 1: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt tooling on spine and board edges, double blind fillets and gilt armorial centrepiece on covers, red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Sir Paul Rycaut (1628-1700)