Aurangzeb , 1618-1707, History, History, Description and travel, Court and courtiers, Social life and customs, DS461.7 .B47 1671
The history of the late revolution of the dominions of the Great Mogol -- Particular events, or, The most considerable passages after the war of... Show moreThe history of the late revolution of the dominions of the Great Mogol -- Particular events, or, The most considerable passages after the war of five years, or thereabout, in the empire of the Great Mogol -- A letter to the Lord Colbert, of the extent of Indostan, the circulation of gold and silver coming at length to be swallow'd up there as in an abyss, the riches, forces, justice and the principal cause of the decay of the states of Asia. by Monsr F. Bernier, physitian of the faculty of Montpelier ; English'd out of French. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initial letters. Title page followed by seven pages of "An extrait of a letter written to Mr. H.O. from Monsr de Monceaux the younger, giving a character of the book here Englished and its author", which is followed by six pages of contents and an errata page. With a final advertisement leaf. Pagination: [16], 258, [2], 176, 102, [2] p. Page 208 is wrongly printed as 082. Translation by Henry Oldenburg of author's Histoire de la dernière révolution des états du Grand Mogol, 1670. Volume two, entitled "Particular events, or, The most considerable passages after the war of five years, or thereabout, in the empire of the Great Mogol" has separate pagination and title page with following imprint: London : printed by S.G. for Moses Pitt at the white Hart in Little Britain, 1671. The third part entitled "A letter to the Lord Colbert, of the extent of Indostan, the circulation of gold and silver coming at length to be swallow'd up there as in an abyss, the riches, forces, justice and the principal cause of the decay of the states of Asia" has also separate pagination. Copy in FCO Historical collection is a variant copy without a Wing reference number. Imprint reads: London : printed and are to be sold by John Williams, book-seller in Plymouth, 1671. The map is signed: "Cross sculp:" Main Heritage Shelves General DS461.7 .B47 1671 Book Item-ID: i10203618 BIB-ID: 1021997 Text also available online from EEBO at: http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home. English translation of French original. Copy in Marsden Collection has armorial bookplate of William Marsden on front paste-down. UkLU-K Copy in FCO Historical Collection is from the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King's on permanent loan in 2007. It has a ms. inscription on second free endpaper: "E Libris Thomae Hewett, Anno Domini 1719" and a ms. inscription in Indic script on the same page. There is another ms. inscription on title page in another hand: "L. Moody, Mrs Hill". UkLU-K Show less
Ioan Antonii Viperani. Main Heritage Shelves General DG992.6 .V57 1567 Book Item-ID: i2195902x BIB-ID: 2346871 Show moreIoan Antonii Viperani. Main Heritage Shelves General DG992.6 .V57 1567 Book Item-ID: i2195902x BIB-ID: 2346871 Show less
di Cesare Campana. Printer's device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head pieces. Italic type. First edition of Campana's "Historical Compendium of... Show moredi Cesare Campana. Printer's device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head pieces. Italic type. First edition of Campana's "Historical Compendium of the Latest Wars between Christians and Turks and Persians". After a biographical overview of the ruling house of Ottoman Turkey (the folding plates offers a genealogical table of the ruling Ottoman dynasty from Soliman to Mehmed III). Camapna details the armed conflicts carried out in the course of the Ottoman-Safavid War (1577-90) between Safavid Persia under Mohammed Khodabanda (and later Abbas I) and the Ottoman Empire under Murad III. The Ottomans had started the war with the objective of conquering Azerbaijan and the Caucasus, and they effectively came to rule over those areas as far as the Caspian Sea. A peace of Istanbul was concluded in 1590, in which Persia confirmed these Ottoman conquests and promised to end Shiite propaganda in Ottoman territories and persecution of Sunnis in her own lands. The advent of the Ottoman-Safavid war temporarily deflected Ottoman interest from European affairs, where the Ottoman Empire had been active with the Franco-Ottoman alliance and the support of the Dutch Revolt, in an interesting episode of mutually-supportive relations between Islam and Protestantism. - The volume's second part is dedicated to the Turkish Wars in Hungary and Transylvania during the 1590s; the end is brought up by a chronicle of events in Turkish history from 1257 to 1596. - Inkstains to title page; faint waterstain throughout; occasional worming restored (no loss to text). Main Heritage Shelves General DB924 .C36 1597 Book Item-ID: i16817308 BIB-ID: 1507109 Show less
par Chalcondile ; de la traduction de B. de Vigenère,... avec la continuation... depuis la ruine du Péloponèse jusques à présent... à laquelle ont... Show morepar Chalcondile ; de la traduction de B. de Vigenère,... avec la continuation... depuis la ruine du Péloponèse jusques à présent... à laquelle ont esté adjoustez les éloges des seigneurs othomans, plusieurs descriptions et figures représentans... les accoustremens des officiers de l'Empereur turc, et des tableaux prophétiques prédisans la ruine de la mesme monarchie par Artus Thomas, sieur d'Embry. Main Heritage Shelves General DR439 .C43 1612 Book Item-ID: i24457413 BIB-ID: 2604902 Triomphe et victoire de la croix contre les erreurs de Mahomet / Artus Thomas Show less
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., HistoryOrthodox Eastern Church, Islam, Islam--Early works to 1800, Muslims, Muslims--Turkey--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel, DR424 .G74 1683
Published by command of the French King, by Monsieur William Joseph Grelot. Made English by J. Philips. A translation, by John Phillips, of: Grelot,... Show morePublished by command of the French King, by Monsieur William Joseph Grelot. Made English by J. Philips. A translation, by John Phillips, of: Grelot, Guillaume-Joseph. Relation nouvelle d'un voyage de Constantinople. With frontis. portrait (A1v) of Mahomet IV dated 1683 signed: I. Sturt sculp. Illustrations numbered I-XIV; ten are on inserted plates, the others within the text. Signatures: A-R⁸. Main Heritage Shelves General DR424 .G74 1683 Book Item-ID: i10041345 BIB-ID: 1005937 Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms, 1965. 1 microfilm reel ; 35mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 186:10). Signature (17th or early 18th cent?) of William Davison. UkCU Show less
traduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 2-3 Item... Show moretraduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 2-3 Item-ID: i22426061 BIB-ID: 2397315 Show less
traduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 1 Item-ID:... Show moretraduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i22425718 BIB-ID: 2397315 Show less
traduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 6-7 Item... Show moretraduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 6-7 Item-ID: i22426140 BIB-ID: 2397315 Show less
traduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 5 Item-ID:... Show moretraduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 5 Item-ID: i22426103 BIB-ID: 2397315 Show less
traduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 4 Item-ID:... Show moretraduite de l'italien de Sagredo par monsieur Laurent. volume 2 and 3 bounded together Main Heritage Shelves General DR511 .S24 1730 Book vol. 4 Item-ID: i22426073 BIB-ID: 2397315 Show less
volgarizzamento del Anicio Bonucci. "Statistica storica dei reggimenti spediti in Affrica dal 1830 in poi": v. 2, p.[357]-539. Main Heritage Shelves... Show morevolgarizzamento del Anicio Bonucci. "Statistica storica dei reggimenti spediti in Affrica dal 1830 in poi": v. 2, p.[357]-539. Main Heritage Shelves General DT284 .G35 1851 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i10180400 BIB-ID: 1019676 "Biografia d'Abd-el-Kader": v. 2, p. [541]-564. Show less
volgarizzamento del Anicio Bonucci. "Statistica storica dei reggimenti spediti in Affrica dal 1830 in poi": v. 2, p.[357]-539. Main Heritage Shelves... Show morevolgarizzamento del Anicio Bonucci. "Statistica storica dei reggimenti spediti in Affrica dal 1830 in poi": v. 2, p.[357]-539. Main Heritage Shelves General DT284 .G35 1851 Book vol. 2 Item-ID: i2023739x BIB-ID: 1019676 "Biografia d'Abd-el-Kader": v. 2, p. [541]-564. Show less
Villa, Ghirone Francesco , -1668, History, History, DR534.3 .D9 1669
ecrite par L. P. Ioseph du Cros ... Running title: Histoire du siege de Candie. Show moreecrite par L. P. Ioseph du Cros ... Running title: Histoire du siege de Candie. Show less
History, History, Description and travel, Description and travel, History, DS272 .T45 1610
First edition of a "history of the kings of Persia compiled from the Persian histories of Mir Khwand and Turan Shah" (Howgego), in the original... Show moreFirst edition of a "history of the kings of Persia compiled from the Persian histories of Mir Khwand and Turan Shah" (Howgego), in the original Spanish, by the Portuguese merchant and adventurer Pedro Teixeira (1563-1645?). It is one of the earliest European sources to mention Qatar, relating to the pearl fishery in the region: "The pearl fishery at Bahren begins some years in June, but generally in July, an lasts all that month and August … They generally go a fishing to Katar, a port on the coast of Arabia, 10 leagues to the southward of the Island Bahren. As soon an oyster is brought up, they open it, and take out the pearl. The pearls of this sea surpass all others in goodness and weight…" (English translation). The work is divided into three parts. The first, which is the largest, deals with the kings of Persia. It is a summarized translation of the voluminous Rawzat al-Safa by the Persian historian Mir Khwand (ca. 1434-1498), and is probably the first translation of the text into an European language. The second part is a translation of the Ayyibud emir Turan Shah's (d. 1180) chronicle of the kings of Hormuz, a text which is today only extant in translations. Though Teixeira's adventures started in 1586, he reached Hormuz in 1593, where he resided for several years to study its history. Both parts contain a chronological account of the kings, but also provide a more general history of the area. The last and third part contains an account of Teixeira's later travels from India to Italy in 1600-01 and 1604-05, visiting China, Mexico and the Middle East. In his preface Teixeira states that he originally wrote the work in Portuguese, but that it was translated into Spanish to appeal to a wider audience. The work appeared in a French translation in 1681, and extracts appeared in an English translation appeared in 1711, followed by a translation of the full text in 1715. Compiled from the Persian histories of Mir Khwand and of Turan Shah. Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .T45 1610 Book Item-ID: i25174988 BIB-ID: 2704536 Show less
