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softcover. Zustand: with no dust jacket. No Dust Jacket. lacks wrapper, gift inscr on front flyleaf.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. sixth ed. A good set with some marks to the leather and light cracks to the spine edges , some old marks to the covers all polished in and looking very well , some loss to the base of volume 4 but again polished in. Large book plate in all volumes of a Dublin college a prize label to the all front paste downs. Some damp staining to the bottom corners of last 30 pages of vol 1 last end papers missing, frontis and four plates 292pp. Volume 2 has a small amount of loss on the back board but polished in. Two plates 314 pp. Volume 3 , some small loss to bottom spine edge but polished in 8 plates present. 322pp. Volume 4 has a small amount of loss to leather on the boards and bottom of the spine but again all colored and polished in and all looking good.A book worm has traveled through 28 pages 22 inches up at the back. 4 plates 322pp. all bindings have red title labels and black volume numbers in gilt faded, all that said a rather handsome pocket set. illustrated (illustrator).…

Full-Leather. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Spine has five raised bands. There is wear and loss to the top and bottom of the spine.The frotn and back boards are scuffed and the corners are turned in. Frotn board is detached from the book. There is an ink inscrption to the insdie front cover. Thre is browning and foxing throughout the ook.…

Full Leather. Zustand: Good & Sound. A New Edition. With frontispiece. Spine gilt with red label. Previous owner description to the FEP. Some foxing O/w good and sound.

Full Calf. Zustand: Fine. Eleventh Edition, complete in eight volumes, of this espionage saga admired by Defoe, who published Continuation of Turkish Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy in 1718. 12mo(162 x 96mm): xxvi,[6],viii,[10],312; [24],276; [22],287,[1]; [22],288; [22],276; [22],264; [14],248; [18],280pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece of "Mahmut the Turkish spy" to volume one. Full speckled English calf, spines in six compartments divided by raised bands, covers framed with gilt rules and floral roll in blind, red morocco letter-pieces gilt, edges speckled red. A superb set, in a handsome contemporary binding, securely bound and clean throughout. ESTC citation no. T91588. Blackmer 210. Moore 406. Volume One, by Marana, a Genoese political refugee to the French court of Louis XIV, is a translation of a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, in Paris, and originally published in parts in 1684, in French as l'Espin du Grand Seigneur and in Italian as L'esploratore Turco. Translated into English by William Bradshaw in 1687 under the supervision of Robert Midgley, who held the copyright. The remaining seven volumes appeared first in English, between 1691 and 1694, prefaced with a letter claiming their translation from a discovered Italian manuscript. Their authorship has been attributed to various writers, most notably Midgley and Bradshaw. The letters, written by one "Mahmut the Arabian," cover the period of 1637 to 1682 in France, from the last years of the Regency of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Richelieu through the long reign of Louis XIV and his minister Cardinal Mazarin. Taken together, they form a rambling journal of gossip on politics and society. Mahmut's observations range from those on political figures such as Richelieu and Mazarin to speculations on the status of women, advice about state policy, and major interventions in controversies about religious doctrine and their consequences. The series launched a literary genre, the pseudo-foreign letter, of which Montesquieu's Lettres persanes and Goldsmith's Chinese Letters are examples. Daniel Defoe admired the spy's deist rationalist sympathies, and extended the narrator's account from 1682 to 1693 in his Continuation of Turkish Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy in Paris (but see Furbank & Owens, p. 8). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). …