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Rycaut, Sir Paul. THE PRESENT STATE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. CONTAINING THE MAXIMS OF THE TURKISH POLITIE, THE MOST MATERIAL POINTS OF THE MAHOMETAN RELIGION, THEIR SECTS AND HERESIES, THEIR CONVENTS AND RELIGIOUS VOTARIES, THEIR MILITARY DISCIPLINE, WITH AN EXACT COMPUTATION OF THEIR FORCES BOTH BY LAND AND SEA. ILLUSTRATED WITH DIVERS PIECES OF SCULPTURE, REPRESENTING THE VARIETY OF HABITS AMONGST THE TURKS. LONDON: FOR JOHN STARKEY AND HENRY BROME, 1667, FIRST EDITION, ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AFTER PETER LELY ONE ENGRAVED PLATE (DEPICTING 4 SUBJECTS), 20 ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT (TWO OF WHICH DEPICT 2 SUBJECTS) CHIEFLY OF COSTUME, GG2-GG4 WITH LISTS OF BOOKS PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. STARKEY AND H. BROME RESPECTIVELY, ?LACKING ONE PLATE, LEAF F1 TORN AND REPAIRED WITH LOSS OF A FEW LETTERS, A FEW LEAVES WITH HEAVY BROWN STAINING, PORTRAIT SLIGHTLY DUST-SOILED, FRAYED AT MARGINS AND STRENGTHENED AT OUTER EDGE [Ibid.] The History of the Turkish Empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677. Containing the reigns of the three last emperours, viz. Sultan Morat or Amurat IV. Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the XIII. emperour now reigning. London: by J.M. for John Starkey, 1680, first edition, 3 engraved portraits and one full-page plate within the text, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (cf. portrait at front of first work in this volume) Together 2 works bound in one, folio (290 x 187mm.), eighteenth-century half calf, neatly rebacked