REUSSNER N., "Epistolarum Turcicarum variorum et diversum authorum", Frankfurt, 1598-1599. First and only edition. Eight books in two volumes bound in one. 4to (21x18cm), pp.304 + 182. Complete. Fine and unique binding: 12th century vellum with original manuscript text (imperial donation of land), sealing wax on it, as a binding vellum of the 16th century work. Copper engraved title, finely decoration with noble emblems and imperial eagle, depicting war scenes. A fine and clean copy. This is a rare collection of several very early works for the Ottoman Levant, most in First printed editions, covering more than 200 years up to the late 16th century. The tended European-Turkish relations of the 16th century opened a new discussion along the Ottoman Empires military force, administration and society, with the Europeans trying to collect and publish, all available material. Within this frame, the current edition is a collections of German, Polish, Venetian, Spanish and French sources, covering 2 centuries (all, in original accounts, in Latin) and dealing only with aspects of theOttoman Empire. This work provides a complete image of all the Levant, including the end of Byzantium and the Greeks under the Ottoman rule. Included very early travel accounts in Anatolia, as the "expeditio Asiatica versus Turcas" of Frederici Augusti, others for Europe, as of Leo Pannoniae, of Sigismund and others, up to almost contemporary accounts and letters i.e. Leonardo Lavredano, Ioanni voivoda Transylvaniae etc. Extremely rare. Not in Atabey,Blackmer or any other known collection.