The generall historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie:
KNOLLES, Richard.
The generall historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie:
The generall historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie:
with all the notable expeditions of the Christian princes against them. Together with the lives and conquests of the Othoman kings and emperours, vnto the yeare 1621 written by Richard Knolles somtyme fellowe of Lincoln College in Oxford.
Stock Code 102879
London, Adam Islip, 1621.
The recent victories of Mahomet III over the Christians must have rendered the Turkish question of vital interest to the security of Europe, and the struggle remained in the balance till the end of the seventeenth century (Hind). The fine medallion portraits of the Turkish kings, emperors and sultans together with their (mostly) Christian adversaries, were adapted by Laurence Johnson from Jean Jacques Boissard's Vitae et Icones Sultanorum (1596). The portraits include Skanderberg, Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, and Mustafa Pasha, the conqueror of Cyprus.
This edition edited by Edward Grimston. This edition includes the first of the continuations, the life of Mustafa, '9th emperour of the Turks'.
Third edition; folio; engraved title, 32 engraved illustrations in text (31 portraits and 1 battle scene), woodcut initials, lacking A1 (blank), table misbound at beginning, scattered manuscript corrections or underlining, contemporary manuscript quote to final leaf verso, 7pp manuscript notes loosely inserted, occasional tiny marginal worming (G1-M6; 2O4-2V6; 3X1-4D6), ink stain affecting few words of text (R4), short marginal tear (3Q6), short tear affecting text (K6), occasional faint spotting, one or two tiny rust holes, bookplate; contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities.
STC 15053; Cf. Atabey 1076 (6th edition under Rycaut); Cf. Blackmer 919 (first edition); Chew, Byron in England, 1924; Navari, Contaminas, 363; cf. Navari, Cyprus, pp. 283-284 (2nd & 5th eds).
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