The Generall Historie of the Turkes from the First Beginning of that Nation to the Rising of the Othoman Familie: with all the notable expeditions of the Christian princes against them. Together with the lives and conquests of the Othoman kings and emperours, unto the yeare 1621. Written by Richard Knolles somtyme fellowe of Lincoln College in Oxford.
KNOLLES, Richard.
Published by London Adam Islip, 1621
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Third edition; folio (34.5 x 23 cm); 32 engravings in text (31 portraits and 1 battle scene), woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, engraved title with repair to bottom margin, small loss of outer corners to leaves 3A6 and 4B5, and a small closed tear without loss to leaf 4I3, contemporary ownership inscriptions to endpapers; contemporary full calf, spine in seven compartments, professional restoration to spine and corners, a little bumped, a very good copy; [12], 1396, [40] pp. 'The greatest of English works of the Renaissance dealing with Turkey' (Chew) and the first to chronicle the military and political history of the Ottoman Empire in English. This is the first edition to contain a continuation, 'A continuation of this historie, to the end of this present yeare 1620', containing the life of Mustafa, '9th emperour of the Turks', by Edward Grimston. The recent victories of Mahomet III over the Christians must have rendered the Turkish question of vital interest to the security of Europe, and the struggle remained in the balance till the end of the seventeenth century (Hind). The fine medallion portraits of the Turkish kings, emperors and sultans together with their (mostly) Christian adversaries, were adapted by Laurence Johnson from Jean Jacques Boissard's Vitae et Icones Sultanorum (1596). The portraits include Skanderberg, Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, and Mustafa Pasha, the conqueror of Cyprus. Knolles is well recorded as being influential: both Dr. Johnson and Byron highly praised the work and its impact on western literature. ESTC 15053; cf. Atabey 1076 (6th edition under Rycaut); cf. Blackmer 919 (first edition); Chew (Byron in England), 1924; Navari (Contaminas), 363; cf. Navari (Cyprus), pp. 283-284 (2nd & 5th eds). Seller Inventory # 121260
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Title: The Generall Historie of the Turkes from the...
Publisher: London Adam Islip
Publication Date: 1621
Edition: 1st Edition
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