Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693) L'Espion dans les Cours des Princes Chretiens. Cologne: Erasme Kinkius, 1710. Six octavo volumes, in contemporary French speckled calf, with the frontispiece in volume one, and some full-page and folding engravings in the text, some leaves torn with loss, all boards attached, some endcaps worn with loss. The authorship of this work, better known as L'Espion Turc, or its English title, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, is in dispute. The first volume is attributed to Marana, but the subsequent additions are in dispute. The loquacious author, writing between 1637 and 1682, is consumed with politics, religious controversy, and social observations.
Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693) L'Espion dans les Cours des Princes Chretiens. Cologne: Erasme Kinkius, 1710. Six octavo volumes, in contemporary French speckled calf, with the frontispiece in volume one, and some full-page and folding engravings in the text, some leaves torn with loss, all boards attached, some endcaps worn with loss. The authorship of this work, better known as L'Espion Turc, or its English title, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, is in dispute. The first volume is attributed to Marana, but the subsequent additions are in dispute. The loquacious author, writing between 1637 and 1682, is consumed with politics, religious controversy, and social observations.
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