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RYCAUT, PAUL, Sir; SAGREDO, GIOVANNI; et al. Die Neu-eröffnete Ottomannische Pforte. Folding engraved plate of battle scene in Volume 2; engraved text illustrations throughout; lacks the portrait. [20], 150, [2], 569, [73]; [18], 864, [40], [10], 116 pages, including 2 half-titles and 2 engraved allegorical additional titles. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Folio, sizes not uniform, first volume in early 19th-century 1/4 sheep gilt, second in 18th-century sheep gilt, both heavily worn; occasional light marginal foxing and soiling, portrait of Selim II printed upside down on page 220 in Volume 1, minor marginal restoration on several leaves in Volume 2 with slight text loss on Ooo4. Augsburg: Johann Jacob Schönig [Johann Christoph Wagner] for Lorentz Kroniger et al., 1694-1700;
Second edition in German of Rycaut's The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, enlarged with the first editions in German of Sagredo's Memorie Istoriche de' Monarchi Ottomani, Rycaut's The Present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches, and related texts by other authors.
