Ottoman Empire

with the title "[...] Trattato della Turchia", a fair copy, comprising two parts: Parte I, 'Dell'Imperio Turchese in Generale' and Parte Seconda, 'La Turchia Europea in Grecia', including chapters on Romania, Bulgaria and Thrace (including Constantinople), Macedonia, Thessaly, Albania, Epirus, Greece ("Livadia") and Morea, discussions of the dress and language of the Turks, Islam ("e del loro falsa Profeta, Maometto"), and other religions throughout the Ottoman Empire, the Government of Constantinople ("del Gran Signore"), the Eunuchs, the army, the wealth of the Sultan, a chronology of the Empire up to Ahmet III, recording events up to 1717, the earlier Saracens and Seljuk Turks from the seventh century and the Crusades, a history of Ancient Greece and Sparta, the Greek (i.e. Byzantine) Empire up to the fall of Constantinople

around 850 pages, 4to (210 x 145mm.), early eighteenth-century calf, marbled endpapers, woodcut border to title, the first word of the title obscured with a paper slip), binding broken and repaired with cloth

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