01969cam a22003011 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160080041000330100017000740400028000910430012001190500020001310820013001511000061001642400051002252450557002762500013008332600037008463000018008835000427009016510032013286510032013607000052013927000056014449420012015009990019015129520136015318803700BD-DhUL20180503140821.0821223s1770 enk 000 0 eng  a 44043436  aDLCcCarPdDLCdBD-DhUL ae------00aD246b.M31 1770 a826bLET1 a[Marana, Giovanni Paolo],d1642-1693. [from old catalog]10aEsploratore turco.lEnglish [from old catalog]10aLetters writ by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris:bgiving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, from thence into English, and now published with a large historical preface and index to illustrate the whole,cby the translator of the first volume ... a26th ed. aLondon :bA. Wilde [etc.]c1770. a v. ;c17 cm. aAuthorities agree that the first part of the work, published in Paris in 1684, was written by Marana. The remainder has been ascribed to several Englishmen, among them Dr. Robert Midgley and William Bradshaw. It is probable however that Midgley simply edited the English translation, made by Bradshaw, of the original Italian mansucript. cf. Gentleman's magazine, 1840-41; Dict. of nat. biog., v. 6, p. 185; v. 37, p. 366. 0aEuropexHistoryy1517-1648. 0aEuropexHistoryy1648-1789.1 aMidgley, Robert,d1653-1723. [from old catalog]1 aBradshaw, William,dactive 1700. [from old catalog] 2ddccBK c240916d240916 00102ddc406826_000000000000000_LET708NFIC9365778aDULbDULcGENd2018-05-03eGifto826 LETp56771r2018-05-03w2018-05-03yBK