Beschreibung:

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 Emperors, with a Continuation to this Present Year. Whereunto is added The Present State of the Ottoman Empire by Sir Paul Rycaut. The Sixth Edition ... The First Volume [... The Second Volume], printed for Robert Clavel, 1687, together with, as issued: Rycaut (Paul), The History of the Turkish Empire, from the Year 1623, to the Year 1677, 2nd edition, printed by J. D. for Tho. Basset [and others], 1687; The Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing the Maxims of the Turkish Polity, printed by J. D. 1687; The History of the Turks. Beginning with the Year 1679 ... until the End of the Year 1698, and 1699 ... which compleats the Sixth and Last Edition of the History of the Turks. In Two Vol. in Folio, 1st edition, printed for Robert Clavell and Abel Roper, 1700, 5 parts in 2 volumes, Knolles's work in 2 parts, part 2 with a separate title page in red and black, pagination and register continuous, 27 engraved plates (of 28, lacking portrait of Murad III in Knolles), mainly portraits, light browning, occasional mild spotting and soiling, marginal repairs to Knolles frontispiece and small hole in leaf 4B1 affecting a few letters, closed tears in The History of the Turkish Empire leaf Z1 and to margin of The Present State leaf A1, minor damp-staining towards rear of volume 1 and final leaf (index) repaired in margins, contemporary calf, rebacked, sides scuffed and pitted, craquelure, restoration to extremities, folio (38 x 23.5 cm) Atabey 1076-7, Blackmer 1466 (27 plates only), Lowndes II p. 1286 ('best edition'); Wing K703A for Knolles, R2407 for Rycaut's History of the Turkish Empire, R2414A for The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, R2408 for The History of the Turks beginning with the Year 1679. 'First collected edition ... The illustrations are not the same as those in earlier editions ... Rycaut's history constitutes a fitting adjunct to Knolles' great work in an edition which brings together the two men most associated in the English literary world with Turkey' (Blackmer). (2)