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Histoire des trois derniers empereurs des Turcs depuis 1623 jusqu'a 1677. 4 parts.
Paris, Louis Billaine, 1683. 8vo. Four parts bound in one contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, some of gilting worn off and small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Title-page of part 1 slightly soiled and with underligning, othewise internally fine and clean. 365, 412 pp.
Second French edition of Rycaut's (the original English edition being from 1680) popular work on the Ottoman Empire during the period of Sultan Amurat, Ibrahim and Mehmet IV. It is considered to be a source of inspiration for Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes.
RYCAUT, Sir Paul - ( also Ricaut or Ricault ) - M. De Rosemond ( translator into French ) :
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Histoire de l'estat present de l'Eglise Grecque , et de l'Eglise Arménienne . Par Monsieur le Chevalier Ricaut. Traduite de l'Anglois par M. De Rosemond.
" Middelbourg ( Middelburg in the Netherlands ), Chez Gilles Horthemels, Pere & Fils, 1692, in-12°, (48) nn pp ( title, two prefaces, index) + 444 pp. Bound in contemporary vellum. Leather title label on smooth spine. Vellum slightly soiled, some pages with some minor stains but on the whole a fine/good copy. Rycaut ( London 1629 - Hamburg 1700) wrote this study on the Greek and Armenian Churches at the command of king Charles II; as stated in the title of the first - English - edition ( London, John Starkey 1679). The Middelburg edition is the first French translation . The author , being in diplomatic service at Constantinopel and Smyrna, was one of the first in Western Europe to describe and understand the difficulties of the Greek Church at that time nearly being crushed between Turkish and Catholic beliefs."
