The fourth 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 1649, to the year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.
Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3095580
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24],359,[1]p. . port.. (metal cut) . 12mo.. Shelved and uniform with vol. 1 (5th ed.), and vols. 2-3 and 5-8 (1st ed.). manuscript price on title page: "Price 3s.".. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on title page: "John & Isabella" [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751) and his first wife Isabella (1670-1693)]. Armorial bookplate on title page verso: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23d. 1702. [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Late seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border; blind roll on board edges. Rebacked in gold-tooled calf. Red sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
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) Daniel Saltmarsh