A compendious history of the Turks

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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