Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
KNOLLES, RICHARD. The Generall Historie of the Turkes . . . Together with the Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours . . . With a New Continuation . . . unto the Yeare 1638. 32 engraved text portraits, and illustration of bridge over the Danube. [10] (of [12]), 1500, [20], 31, [32] pages, including engraved title (trimmed and mounted); lacks initial blank. Folio, 329x215 mm, contemporary calf, badly worn, covers detached, endpapers renewed; occasional soiling, scattered minor stains, some sidenotes cropped, few words or passages inked out, rust hole through 5M2 affecting word on verso, worming in blank upper inner corners toward end. London: Adam Islip, 1638

Additional Details

Fifth edition of the major English-language work of the period on the Ottoman empire, originally published in 1603. STC 15055.