Ralamb: “Kort beskriffning om thet wid then Constantinopolitaniske resan ar foreluppit.” Stockholm 1679 First edition, in 8vo 20x16cm, early 19th century leather over boards, text rather browned as in all copies due to the quality of the then used paper, ex libris of Biblioteca Charles Jedvard an important Swedish statesman of early 19th century, complete 93p. [12], overall very good. Claes Ralamb (1622-1698) a Swedish diplomat led an embassy to the Sublime Porte in 1657-58. He even acquired, in Constantinople, a fine manuscript album of Levantine costumes (now in Swedish Royal Library). He kept a detailed daily calendar of his travel to Constantinople, his stay there and his return. His travel was from early 1657 to April 1658. It is an invaluable source of information, as he describes in meticulous details all the ceremonies of the Ottoman Palace in the peak of the Ottoman power, the state administration, the protocol, the life in Constantinople and its mixed society. Ralamb was educated and as a diplomat and a representative of a friendly for the Ottomans country, he was quite free to travel around and evaluate what he saw. A very interesting travel account of the 17th century. Atabey 1010, not in Blackmer. Very rare