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London, Printed for Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Cornhill against the ROYAL EXCHANGE,1673.. SECOND ENGLISH EDITION 1673. Folio, approximately 295 x 190 mm, 11½ x 7½ inches, engraved frontispiece plus 11 engraved portraits, pages: [16], 1-140, 145-190, jump in pagination from 140 to 145, as in all copies, all catchwords correct, see ESTC No. R13242. Rebound in full modern calf, gilt lettering and date to spine between raised bands, double rules and flower in each corner in blind to covers, marbled edges, old endpapers age-browned with old ink names and scribble. Pale age-browning to margins, slight loss to the inner margin of frontispiece, some strengthening to the inner margins of first few pages with archival tape, occasional old ink splash, mostly to margins, occasional small neat repair, mostly to margins, 1 plate has small closed tear neatly repaired, no loss of image, 1 corner tip neatly repaired, small stain to many lower corners, affecting only the tips with occasional tiny chips, occasional small fox spot, covers slightly sprung, otherwise a very good copy. See: The Sefik E. Collection, The Ottoman World, Volume 2, page 596, number 1116. Not in Blackmer. The portraits include Mahomet the Second; Solyman the Great; Tamberlane Emperor of the Tartars; Henry the Eighth; George Castriot Scanderbeg etc. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.