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Added engraved t.p. ; Originally published: London : Printed for Charles Brome, 1686. ; Photocopied by the University of Chicago Library. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The sixth edition corrected. ; 7 p. l., 406, [5] p.

Later editions have title: The history of the present state of the Ottoman Empire. ; Mode of access: Internet.

[12], 218 p. : ill. ; Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. ; Table of contents: p. [9]-[12]

[23], 1019, p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library. ; Pt. 1 of the Spanish original was first printed at Lisbon in 1609, with colophon dated 1608; pt. 2 was first printed at Cordova in 1616. ; " . [Rycaut] had a very slight knowledge of the Spanish language and he did not scruple to make wild guesses at the meaning of sentences, and to omit whole chapters. Thus he only gives fourteen out of the twenty-six chapters in the first book, and sixteen out of the twenty-six in the second."--C.S. Markham's introd. to the First part of the Royal commentaries, 1869-71, v. 1, p. xvi. ; Index: p. [14]-[23]

Signatures: A⁶ B-Y⁴ 2A-2F⁴ 2G². ; The illustrations are hand colored. ; With engraved frontispiece portrait of of Sultan Mahomet Han. ; Wing ; ESTC ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Library's copy includes three letters, two by the Dept. of Printed Books at the British Museum and one by the Archives Dept. of the Council House, Bristol, regarding a copy the 1668 edition of Rycaut's book apparently owned by H.R. Wansborough, Esq. ; Binding: contemporary mottled calf; spine rebacked with original gold-tooled backstrip preserved; marbled edges.