History, Diplomacy – Anon. (ascribed to Marano, Giovanni Pao...

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History, Diplomacy – Anon. (ascribed to Marano, Giovanni Paolo) Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Who liv’d Five and Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris: Giving Impartial Accounts to the Divan at Constantinople of the most Remarkable Transactions of Europe and Discovering several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts (especially of that of France) continued from the Year 1673 to the Year 1682 written originally in Arabic, translated into Italian and from thence into English, 8 vols., London, A. Wilde for S. E. Ballard et al., 1753-1754, large 16mo, various editions, gilt edges, most with marbled endpapers, bound uniform in leather with gilt titles to spine, title pages each inscribed in MS, J. Francklin, Feby 1761, spines rubbed and stained (8)