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MARANA, GIOVANNI PAOLO, attributed to. L''Espion Turc dans les Cours des Princes Chrétiens. 6 vols. 1700
[MARANA, GIOVANNI PAOLO, attributed to.] L''Espion Turc dans les Cours des Princes Chrétiens; ou, Lettres et Mémoires d''un Envoyé Secret de la Porte dans les Cours de l''Europe. 30 engraved plates, including frontispieces in first 5 volumes and 2 folding views of Constantinople; 4 folding plans of Paris, Casale, Valencienne, and Dunkirk (the last 3 with minor cellotape repairs). 6 volumes. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt with morocco lettering pieces, top of spines worn, first 3 spines missing portions from bottom compartments; occasional browning, scattered marginal dampstains, booksellers'' catalogue cuttings mounted on Volume 1 front endpapers, worming in upper outer corner of several leaves in Volume 2 causing slight text loss. Bookplates of Docteur Antoine Compin. Cologne: Erasme Kinkius, 1700
- Notes: Originally published in 1684, a collection of fictitious letters containing observations on contemporary European affairs by an Ottoman agent in Paris.
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