[Turkey] The present State of the Ottoman Empire

Containing the Maxims of the Turkish Politie, the most material Points of the Mahometan Religion, their Sects and Heresies, their Convents and Religious Votaries, Their Military Discipline (...) in three books. By Paul Rycaut. The Third Edition. London, printed for John Starkey and Henry Brome, and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head (...), 1670, (12),216 p., with engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates and 19 engraved illustrations in the text, without binding, 4to.

Only the bookblock (final pages loose), with remains of the original leather spine; with scattered stamps of the New York Historical Society. The rare third edition. The first edition appeared in 1667 but is extremely rare due to the Great Fire of London; a second edition appeared in 1668, many later editions and translations would follow. On the Internet, various digitised copies of the third editions can be found, the copy in the library in Toronto has an incorrect page number 217 for the final page; our copy and two copies digitised by Google have the correct final page number 216.