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His Majesty and the Officers of State receiving the Turkish Ambassador and Suit.

Mather Brown

...Based on a painting by the American artist Mather Brown, this stipple and etching depicts an audience given by George III to the Turkish ambassador. Attending the King are Lord Salisbury, William Pitt, the Lord Chancellor, Master...

Des coustumes & manieres de vivre des Turcs, faict premiereme[n]t en Latin par Christophle Richer vallet de chambre du roy treschrestien, Fra[n]cois premier de ce nom, & secretaire de son cha[n]cellier, & depuis par iceluy Richer traduict en langue Francoise, & dedie audict roy treschrestien.

Christophe Richer

...Christophe Richer (1513-52), valet du chambre to François I, and also secretary to Chancellor Poyet, is believed to have made a number of diplomatic missions to Turkey. Later he was French ambassador to Denmark and Sweden. This work...

La Turquie nouvelle : jugée au point où l’ont amenée les réformes du Sultan Mahmoud / par L.-P.-B. d'Aubignosc, ancien administrateur général des pays du nord de l'Allemagne, soumis à la France sous le régime impérial.

L.-P.-B. d’ Aubignosc

...A rare first and only edition of this study of Sultan Mahmud II's reforms. L.-P.-B. d’ Aubignosc (1774–1847) was the director of the Imperial Police at Hamburg and in 1798 took part in the expedition to Egypt. In April 1830 he was sent...