Item #017056 The Letters Written by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered 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 that of France) (Volumes IV, V & VIII). Paolo Marana Giovanni, Mahmut the Spy.
The Letters Written by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered 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 that of France) (Volumes IV, V & VIII)
The Letters Written by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered 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 that of France) (Volumes IV, V & VIII)
The Letters Written by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered 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 that of France) (Volumes IV, V & VIII)

The Letters Written by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered 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 that of France) (Volumes IV, V & VIII)

London: F. Leake for Henry Rhodes, 1692. 1st Edition. Full-Leather. Good. Item #017056

Three Volumes, 12mo., (23)359(1)pp; (23)359pp; (23)357(1)pp. Solid First Editions, 1692-1694. Translated from the original Arabic into Italian and then into English. Bound in full contemporary brown calf. Four raised bands with title and volume number in gilt in the second and third compartments respectively and gilt decorative crosses in all others. Frontispiece of Mahmut the Spy in each volume. Each volume is square and generally quite clean throughout with no noticeable foxing. A few page corners gently dog-eared in vol. 8. Vol. 8 also has a neatly detached front board and first blank. The other volume's bindings are rubbed but sturdy and holding firm. Some scuffing and rubbing to edges and tips. Spine gilt, particularly for the titles, are largely worn off. Small, neat name, (Thayer?), written at the top of the Frontispiece and at the top of the title page in vol, 4.. Not perfect and incomplete of course but still a presentable grouping of an scarce First.

Price: $1,500.00

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