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001 $ 03/2920
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20211017152828.5
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Rycaut, Paul
245 1 4 $a The History Of The Turks. Beginning with the Year 1679. $b Being a full Relation Of the Last Troubles in Hungary, with the Sieges of Vienna, and Buda, and all the several Battles both by Sea and Land, between the Christians, and the Turks, until the End of the Year 1698, and 1699. In Which The Peace between the Turks, And The Confederate Christian Princes and States, was happily Concluded at Carlowitz in Hungary, By the Mediation of His Majesty of Great Britain, and the States General of the United Provinces. With the Effigies of the Emperors and others of Note, Engraven at Large upon Copper, which Compleats the Sixth and Last Edition of the History of the Turks. In Two Vol. in Folio. By Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt. Eighteen Years Consul at Smyrna, now His Majesty's Resident at Hamburg, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
260 # # $a London: $b Printed for Robert Clavell, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Abel Roper against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet. $c MDCC. $c [1700]
300 # # $a [8], 607, [9] p., frontis. (port.), [6] pl.; $c 389 mm. (Quarto).
500 # # $a Pages 239, 240 are misnumbered as 249, 250.
505 0 # $a [Frontis. (port.), t.p., dedic.] - The Preface To The Reader - [Text, with pl.] - An Alphabetical Table Of The Principal Matters Contain'd in this Book.
508 # # $a The frontispiece portrait is signed as painted by P. Leley and engraved by R. White. The first plate is unsigned; the remaining five are all signed as engraved by M. Vander Gucht.

The unsigned plate carries the imprint, 'Sold by Robert Clavell and Abel Roper'.

The work is dedicated by Paul Rycaut to King William III.
510 0 # $a A. Grosrichard, The sultan's court: European fantasies of the east (1998); B. H. Beck, From the rising of the sun: English images of the Ottoman empire to 1715 (1987). On Rycaut see C. Heywood, Writing Ottoman history: documents and interpretations (2001), no.4; S.P. Anderson, An English consul in Turkey: Paul Rycaut (1989).
510 4 # $a ESTC $c R216646
520 2 # $a The frontispiece is a portrait of the author; the other six plates are portraits of Ottoman sultans.
533 # # $n A microfilm version was published in 1987, 1989 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International).
561 # # $a Acquired between 1769 and 1802. Recorded in RAA Library Catalogue, 1802.
563 # # $a Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt-decorated spine lettered 'History Of The Turks'.
600 0 4 $a Suleyman II
600 0 4 $a Mustafa II
600 0 4 $a Mehmed IV
653 # # $a Turks - Monarchs - Turkey - Balkans - Austria - Foreign relations - History - 17th century - Portraits
653 # # $a Portraits - Great Britain - 18th century
700 0 # $a William III $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Lely, Peter $e source artist
700 1 # $a Clavell, Robert $e publisher
700 1 # $a Gucht, Michael van der $e engraver
700 1 # $a Roper, Abel $e publisher
700 1 # $a White, Robert $e engraver
852 8 # $d 1802: E-5-05; 1821: E-5-05.