The history of the Turks : Describing the rise and ruin, of their first empire in Persia; the original of their second : Containing the lives and reigns of their several kings and emperors, from Ottoman its first founder to this present year, 1683. : Being a succinct series of history, of all their wars (forreign and domestick) policies, customs, religion and manners; with what else is worthy of note, in that great empire
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Type of record: Book
Title: The history of the Turks : Describing the rise and ruin, of their first empire in Persia; the original of their second : Containing the lives and reigns of their several kings and emperors, from Ottoman its first founder to this present year, 1683. : Being a succinct series of history, of all their wars (forreign and domestick) policies, customs, religion and manners; with what else is worthy of note, in that great empire
Classmark: BC Trv/S
Creator(s): Shirley, John (fl. 1680-1702)
Publisher: printed for T.P. W.T. and T.S. and sold by Ralph Smith, at the sign of the Bible, under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhil
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1683
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 200, 1-396 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281181
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001316579705181
Description
To the reader signed: I.S. (i.e. John Shirley).
Pagination stops in mid-text at p.200, on O8v, beginning new sequence on Aa1r, no text missing; Wing S39 appears to do the same, according to BM entry.
Frontispiece portrait of Sultan Mahomet Han.
Indexed in: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) S39A.
Additional description
Outer margin of title-page partly worn away, slightly affecting text. Signature, c.1700?, of P.Ward, Wadham College Oxford, and possible contemporary initials resembling JSJ, on front flyleaf. This also bears inscription(s?) "Ex libris Ignoti mihi...Norman [?] Lafoy" (partly defaced); on verso of final flyleaf, in similar hand, "Ex domini [sic] ignoti mihi/I am drunk by God"
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