LEADER 02512nam 2200421Ia 450 001 996393486203316 005 20200824132043.0 035 $a(CKB)4940000000118078 035 $a(EEBO)2240882227 035 $a(OCoLC)ocm18212079e 035 $a(OCoLC)18212079 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000118078 100 $a19880714d1687 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 10$aLetters writ by a Turkish spy$b[electronic resource] $ewho lived five and forty years, undiscovered, at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts, (especially of that of France) from the year 1637, to the year 1682 /$fwritten originally in Arabick, first translated into Italian, afterwards into French, and now into English 210 $aLondon $cPrinted by J. Leake, and are to be sold by Henry Rhodes ...$d1687 215 $a[24], 376 p 300 $aThe first edition of this work began publication in 1684, when a volume in Italian entitled "L'esploratore Turco" and a French version entitled "L'esplou du grand seigneur" were published in Paris by C. Barbin. Authorship is disputed, but it is generally agreed that the first fifty letters (the original four volumes) were written by Marana. In the English editions, v. 1 contains the substance of the letters commonly ascribed to Marana. The continuation (i.e. v. 2-8), said to have appeared first in English, has been variously ascribed to Robert Midgley and William Bradshaw; Bradshaw has also been attributed as the translator (from Marana's Italian manuscripts) of the entire work under Dr. Midgley's editorship. Cf. DNB; Gentleman's magazine, 1841, p. 270. 300 $aRunning title reads: Letters writ by a spy at Paris. 300 $a"The end of the first volume": p. 376. 300 $aImperfect: pages 63-64 lacking, tightly bound. 300 $aReproduction of original in the Huntington Library. 330 $aeebo-0113 606 $aSpies$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xHistory$y17th century 615 0$aSpies 700 $aMarana$b Giovanni Paolo$f1642-1693.$0744114 701 $aBradshaw$b William$ffl. 1700.$01004661 701 $aMidgley$b Robert$f1655?-1723.$01003848 801 0$bEAI 801 1$bEAI 801 2$bUMI 801 2$bWaOLN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996393486203316 996 $aLetters writ by a Turkish spy$92395298 997 $aUNISA