RARE 1672 OTTOMAN EMPIRE ISLAM TURKS PAUL RYCAUT PRINTS VENICE ITALY CONSTANTINOPLE WOMEN JEWISH SABBATAI ZEVI Start Price USD 1,312.50 Current Price USD 1,312.50 Time Left 28 days 10 hours 9 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, October 09, 2008 End Time Friday, February 06, 2009 Location Brewster, New York See more about 'RARE 1672 OTTOMAN EMPIRE ISLAM TURKS PAUL RYCAUT PRINTS' Description SquareTrade © AP6.0 kenyoncadwalder Store RARE 1672 OTTOMAN EMPIRE ISLAM TURKS PAUL RYCAUT PRINTS Istoria Dello Stato Presente Dell Imperio Ottomano. Nella Qvale Si Contengono. Le Massime Politiche de Turchi. I punti principali della Religione Mahomettana. Le Sette, le Eresie, e gliordini diuersi de suoi Religiosi. La Disciplina militare, il conto effatto delle forze per Mare, eper Terra, e delle rendite dello stato loro. Composta prima in lingua liglese dal Sig. Ricaut, Scudiere, Segretario del Sig. Co. di VVinchelsy Ambasciadore straordinario del Re d’Inghilterra Carlo secondo, a Sultan Mahometto Han IV. che al presente Regna. Tradotta poscia in Francese dal Sig. Briot, E sinalmente trasportata in Italiano Da Costantin Belli Accademico Tassista. All’Illustriss & Eccellentiss, Sig. Battista Nani, Cavalier Procvrator Meritissimo Di S Marco. Venetia: MDCLXXII, 1672. 1st Edition. Presso Combi & La Nou. Con Licenza De’ Svperiori; E Privilegio. [16], 296 pages. Text in Italian. Illustrated. Interior remains tight, clean and complete. Pages with minor toning remain much better than average. Original paper exterior with some wear and scuffing remains better than average. Tear to the paper exterior at the backstrip. Author at head of backstrip remains. Half-title remains. Frontis remains. Engraved title page, and an additional 20 text illustrations. Everything being said volume remains much better than average. A fantastic find for the collector or anyone interested in this subject matter. Rare. As of this listing this is the only Italian 1st edition currently available via the internet at any price. We have found only 1 auction record for the past 60 years. OCLC: 8791036, locates 10 copies worldwide. 9.50 by 7.00 inches.Sir Paul Rycaut was the leading authority of his day on the Ottoman Empire. He traveled to Constantinople in 1660 as Private Secretary to the British Ambassador. His first major work, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1666), an analysis of Ottoman government and society, was a bestseller in several languages and editions were still being published over a hundred years later. Rycaut was British Consul at Smyrna, the most important centre of English trade in the eastern Mediterranean, from 1667 until 1678. In 1669, he published an anonymous account of the movement led by the Jewish pseudo-messiah Sabbatai Zevi, which had erupted at Smyrna in 1665. Richard Knolles published his Generall Historie of the Turkes in 1603; Sir Paul Rycaut (1628-1700) published his first addition to the History in 1666. Published after Rycaut spent 11 years in Smyrna as the consul for the Levant company, and contains much new information. "Rycaut, from his long residence and connection with the Embassy, was well qualified to delineate Levantine customs. Rycaut's History is regarded as one of the best of its kind with respect to the religious and military state of Turkey" (Cox I: 210). In addition to much material on Jewish life in the Ottoman empire, this work contains an important contemporary account of Sabbatai Zevi, the Jewish messianic figure of the 17th century. "An extremely important and influential work, which provides the fullest account of Ottoman affairs during the 17th century" (Blackmer 1463).Chadenat 6409, 4942, 428 (first French ed.), 5605 (later ed.), 5850 (Italian ed.(This edition)) Place a Bid!