Beschreibung:

Knolles (Richard, & Paul Rycaut). 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, by Richard Knolles. With a Continuation to this Present Year. MDCLXXXVII. Whereunto is added the Present State of the Ottoman Empire, by Sir Paul Rycaut, 2 volumes, London: for Thomas Bassett, 1687, signatures pi1 *2 B-4I4 4K2 5A-5Z4 6A1, pi2 6A2-4 6B-6B4 chi2 B-2K4 2L2 2N-2V4 [par.]-3[par.]4 4[par.]2 [dagger]-2[dagger]2 3[dagger]1 A4-O4 (-A4, apparently not called for), half-title to volume 1, title-pages in red and black, 20 engraved plates (of 21: lacking the folding plate of a Turkish pageant), a few spill-burns or other small holes in text, a very small number of leaves with a corner torn away, volume 2 frontispiece and title-page slightly frayed along fore edges, closed tear in volume 2 signature Z4 extending into text, modern calf, folio (37.8 x 23 cm) (Qty: 2) Provenance: 'E libris Jo Smyth' (contemporary inscription to volume two initial blank); 'Elizabeth Ketchersyde' (inscriptions to volume one half-title and volume two initial blank); 'Anna Maria Gambier' (later inscriptions to title-pages). Atabey 1076; Blackmer 1466 (with the supplementary volume, printed in 1700); Wing K702, R2407, R2414A. First collected edition. 'This complex publication is the result of a major subscription venture which involved over eighty London booksellers as subscribers' (Atabey). The sixth edition of Knolles's text (first edition 1603) is followed by the revised second edition of Rycaut's History of the Turkish Empire (first edition 1680), and another edition of Rycaut's Present State of the Ottoman Empire (first edition 1666/7). This copy matches Atabey's collation but with a few gatherings (containing indexes) bound in a different order.