Lot 148
Rycaut, Sir Paul
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
£400
Description
The present state of the Ottoman Empire. London: printed for John Starkey and Henry Brome, 1668. Second edition, 4to, 2 engraved plates, lacking frontispiece, engravings in text, modern half calf gilt, fading to backstrip, title page browned at edges and mounted on a guard
Footnote
Note: Wing R2413
A majority of the first edition of this work was lost in the Great Fire of London, [although the title-page was dated 1667 it was actually published in 1666, just before the fire of London]. However, it did go on and earn Rycaut election to the Royal Society in December 1666 and was quickly
reprinted. (Oxford DNB)