1663 ENGLISH History of Ottoman TURKS
Empire Sultans Ahmed II Mehmed IV Moore
Andrew Moore’s “Compendious History of the Turks”
is a rare, 17th-century history of the Ottoman Empire through the
mid-1600s. Moore, an English historian, based much of this work on Richard
Knolles’ “Generall Historie of the Turkes” in which the kings of the
Ottoman Empire of described in detail. This particular tome contains
descriptions of kings including Mehmet III, Ahmed I, Mustafa I, Osman II, and
Ahmed II. Curiously, Moore refers to the Ottoman’s in this work as a “barbarous
nation, the world’s present terror” in hopes of exposing kingdom warring
against the Habsburgs in the mid-17th-century.
Item number: #23379
Price: $750
MOORE, Andrew
A compendious history of the
Turks
London: Printed by John Streater, 1663.
Details:
· Collation:
Complete with all pages;
o [2], 799-1531
(i.e., 1561), [17]
· References:
Atabey, Ottoman World II, no. 833;
· Language:
English
· Binding: Leather;
tight and secure
· Size: ~7in X 4.75in (18cm x 12cm)
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