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Zweite Fortsetzung des Ungarischen Kriegs: oder, fundamentale relation úber den von Sr. Durchlaucht Prinz Hildburghausen mit dem unter seinem Commando Gehabten Kayserlichen Corpo in anno 1737, in Bosnien unternommenen feld-zug

Julius Friedrich Scharffenstein

...These two parts stand alone and relate the events of two separate campaigns. The first is a campaign in Bosnia which the Ottomans recaptured from the Austrians in August 1737. The second describes a campaign in the Crimea where Russia...

Analecta medico-historica. 2. Safavid surgery

Cyril Elgood

...Cyril Elgood (1893-1970) served as physician to the British Embassy in Tehran, and was a keen student of the language, culture and history of Iran. He begins this short work by reviewing three major accounts of medical history written...

An overview of British provenance of works in the Ottoman collection of the Arcadian Library

Giles Mandelbrote

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...Much of the Arcadian Library has been assembled through the acquisition of the libraries of earlier collectors. Without the earlier curation work of individuals such as Şefik E. Atabey, Richard Heber and Peter Hopkirk, the Arcadian Library...

Amœnitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasiculi v : quibus continentur variæ relationes / observationes & descriptiones rerum persicarum et ulterioris Asiæ multâ attentione, in peregrinationibus per universum Orientem, collectæ ab auctore Engelberto Kæmpfero, D.

Engelbert Kaempfer

...Engelbert Kaempfer (16 September 1651 – 2 November 1716) was a German naturalist and physician and is best known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. Amoenitatum Exoticarum is important...

Noticia certa de hum fatal successo, acontecido na cidade de Constantinopla, e o espantoso fenomeno, que nella se vio no dia vinte e seis de Novembro proximo de 1756.

[Unknown]

...Purportedly an account of the damage suffered in Constantinople following the Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755, and then of a subsequent earthquake, which struck Constantinople the year after on 26 November at 11.45 in the morning...

Dissertation sur les bains des orientaux / par Mr. Antoine Timony docteur en médecine à Constantinople.

Antoine Timoni

...First edition of this rare treatise. The work was re-issued in the fourth edition of L’Art de Nager by Thevenot. With the origins of steam baths in the depths of Greek medicine, Hippocrates recommended their use as ‘beneficial to many...

كتاب السر الخفي في علم الروحاني لابي عبد الله الريحاني

[Abi 'Abd Allah al-Rayhani]

...Rare Aljamiado manuscript from the 17th-century providing exceptional evidence for the survival of Morisco culture in North Africa, within a generation or two of the final expulsion of the Arabs from Spain on the orders of Philip III...

Nova e curiosa relação do grande combate que tiverão dois navios de guerra, hum Russiano, e outro Napolitano, contra hum corsario Argelino.

F.G.L.M.

...Official letter announcing a naval alliance between Trieste and Naples for an expedition to counter the threat of Algerian and Russian corsairs infesting the coast around Trieste...