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[MIDDLE EAST] CANTEMIR, DEMETRIUS [N. TINDAL, trans.]. The history of the growth and decay of the Othman Empire. Part I. Containing The Growth of the Othman Empire From The Reign of Othman the Founder, To The Reign of Mahomet IV. That is, From the Year 1300, to the Siege of Vienna, in 1683. Part II. Containing The History of the Decay of the Othman Empire, From The Reign of Mahomet IV. To The Reign of Ahmed III. Being The History of the Author's Own Times. Written originally in Latin, by Demetrius Cantemir, late Prince of Moldavia...
London: printed for A. Millar in the Strand, 1756. A reissue of the sheets of the 1734-35 two-volume edition (published with a cancel titlepage, and with the title-page to the second volume and the original list of subscribers excised). Full period calf, all edges sprinkled red. 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (34.5 x 22 cm); xv, [1], 272, [1], 276-460 pp. (as called-for); mezzotint portrait of Cantemir, folding map of Constantinople and 22 plates of the emperors. Light wear, slight cracking or separation at the head and foot of the joints, still a sturdy copy, a little foxing to the preliminaries, minor stain (a small spill?) noticeable from p. 443 to the end, overall a rather fresh copy.
Cantemir, a brilliant statesman and a singularly accomplished polyglot, wrote the present work as the Historia incrementorum atque decrementorum Aulae Othomanicae some years before its 1734 publication in English translation. It remained the best history of the Ottoman world until the 19th century, and it is enlivened with the fine plates of its rulers, taken from originals in the Seraglio.
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