Rycaut Paul, “Histoire de l’Etat present de l’Empire Ottoman”, Amsterdam, A. Wolfgank, 1678. 12mo, pp. 498. Complete with engraved frontispiece and 18 beautiful folded copper engraved plates. Rycaut’s history of the Ottoman empire was, according Blackmer, an extremely important and influential work, which provides the fullest account of the Ottoman world of the 17th century. The fine engravings of the people of the Ottoman Empire are after the “kiyafet” or costumes book which Rycaut had commissioned from an artist in the grand bazaar in Constantinople. Rycaut reached Constantinople in 1661 as secretary to the British ambassador and spent years in the Levant. Contemporary full vellum. A fine clean copy. Atabey 1069 (for the 1670 edition).