Henry Marsh | A New Survey of the Turkish Empire and Government, 1663, nineteenth century half morocco

Property from the Loverdos Collection

Henry Marsh

A New Survey of the Turkish Empire and Government... corrected. London: James Cottrel, 1663

Second edition, 2 parts in one volume, 12mo (133 x 80mm.), title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and one further plate, licence leaf at beginning, pen trials in eighteenth century hand to verso of licence leaf and endleaves, nineteenth century half morocco over green buckram boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, one text leaf shaved at upper margin, one small marginal closed tear, upper hinge splitting, extremities slightly rubbed

"First printed earlier the same year... the year of the unsuccessful first Turkish siege of Vienna, 1663, which had been preceded by the siege of Neuhausel, described here" (Blackmer).

LITERATURE:

Blackmer 1083; Wing M730

PROVENANCE:

Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe (1831-1912), bookplate