The Turkish history, from the original of that nation, to the growth of the Ottoman empire: . with the lives and conquests of their princes and emperours, By Richard Knolles, sometime fellow of Lincoln-College in Oxford. With a continuation to this present year. MDCLXXXVII. Whereunto is added, The present state of the Ottoman empire. By Sir Paul Rycaut, late consul of Smyrna. The sixth edition, with the effigies of all the kings and emperors. Newly engraven at large upon copper. The first volume.
Richard Knolles (1550-1610)
Category
Books
Date
1687
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3135715
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ([6],836; [4],837-990,[28]p.),17 plates . ports.. . fol.. "A table to the Turkish history, ..." and the adv. leaf are bound in after the 3rd item in this volume (Wing R2414A); this index also has the index to Wing R2407 (second item in this vol.) bound between the final leaf of the index and the adv. leaf. 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]. Two small circular stains on p. 513. Scrap of paper possibly used as a bookmark between pp. 792-3. 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
Richard Knolles (1550-1610)