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Relaçaõ do admiravel phenomeno, que appareceo na noyte de 5. de Agosto deste presente anno sobre a cidade de Constantinopla, e do discorso, que sobre a sua observaçaõ fez hum Arabe / traduzida do idioma Italiano, e escrita no Portuguez, por Antonio Nunes.

Victorino José da Costa

...An account of an enormous fireball that appeared in the sky over Istanbul in the night of 5 August 1732. This prodigy supposedly appeared again on the nights of 6 and 7 August. The account then gives an interpretation of the prodigy...

Mission scientifique en Perse/ par J. de Morgan.

Morgan, J. de (Jacques),

,

Gustave Cotteau

,

Victor Gauthier

,

Henri Douvillé

and

Clément Huart

...After an expedition to the Caucasus, Jacques de Morgan was entrusted by the French ministry of public education with his first official mission to Persia. This set of volumes includes four volumes of geological studies; two volumes...

[The Hughes papers].

Hughes, Thomas Fiott, Attaché and Oriental Secretary at Constantinople

,

H. Addington

,

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain

,

Stratford de Redcliffe, Stratford Canning, Viscount, 1786-1880

,

Hussein Pasha

,

Governor of Syria at Damascus

,

Vice-Consul Blunt

,

Hagop Matteossian

,

D. Nikolaides

and

Disraeli, Benjamin

...This collection contains: (i) Letter from H. Addington to Thomas Fiott Hughes announcing his appointment as an attaché to the British embassy in Constantinople; the letter details the duties of an attaché and provides information on his...

Considerations sur la guerre actuelle des Turcs / par Mr. de Volney.

Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François)

and

Peyssonnel, M. de (Charles)

...The 'Considérations', on the Russo-Turkish war of 1787, has a distinctly pro-Russian bias, and anticipates keenly the breaking-up of the Ottoman Empire. It further discusses the Ottoman relations with France, the problem of the Ottoman...

Gl'Annali Turcheschi overo vite de principi della Casa Othomana / di M. Francesco Sansovino, ne quali si descrivono di tempo in tempo tutte le guerre fatte dalla natione de Turchi in diverse provincie del mondo, con molti particolari della Morea, et delle case nobili dell Albania, & dell'Imperio & stato de Greci.

Francesco Sansovino

...Turkish history up to 1565, compiled from various recent authors, who are listed at the beginning of the book. A chapter is devoted to each Ottoman sultan and the book ends with the reign of Süleyman I. This edition also contains...