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Narratio legationis Zbaravianæ, et rerum apud Otthomanos anno 1622, gestarum / conscripta à Samuele Kuszewicz.

Samuel Kuszewicz

...Rare account of a diplomatic mission to the Ottoman court in 1622 led by the diplomat and politician Krzysztof Zbaraski, with a dedication to the Prince of Wisnicz and Zbaraz. Zbaraz in Galizien was part of the Kingdom of Poland...

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...

[Letter to Sir Joseph Banks,] Latikia, 7th July, 1803, [i.e. 1813].

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A long, informative letter to Sir Joseph Banks offering her expertise on Bedouin lifestyle gained from her notorious expedition into the desert with a tribe of Bedouin Arabs in January 1813, and detailing her experiences on this trip...

Lettres patentes du Grand Turc : envoyees à nostre Saint Pere le Pape & à Rodolphe, se disant Roy de Hongrie, avec la permission & liberte à ceux qui desirent faire le voyage de la Terre Saincte / traduictes d'Hebreu en Italien & mises en François par P de la Cour, demeurant en Avignon.

La Cour, P. de, of Avignon

...Fermans from Sultan Ahmed I (1590-1617) to the Pope and to the Emperor Rudolph II (1552-1612) including one giving safe passage to pilgrims visiting the Holy Land; translated from the Hebrew [sic] via Italian to French...

A treatise on the geology of Armenia/ by Felix Oswald, B.A., D.Sc., thesis accepted by the University of London for the degree of Doctor of Science, in two parts, I. Geological results of a journey by the Author through Turkish Armenia, II. The Geological record of Armenia.

Felix Oswald

...A doctoral thesis submitted to the University of London for the degree of Doctor of Science. An analysis of the geology of Armenia, comprising findings of previous observers' research and the author's own research, the fieldwork being...

Articles et capitulations faictes entre le Tres-Chrestien roy de France & de Nauarre, & l'empereur des Turcs : pour Lebien et Grand, profit du toute la Chrestienté, ensemble les beaux & grands privileges donnez par toutes les terres de l'empire Turc à la nation Françoise, par l'entremise des ambassadeurs de France, residans a la porte du grand Seigneur.

Brèves, François Savary, comte de

...The famous renewal of articles and 'capitulations' agreed between Henry IV, King of France, and Ahmed I, Sultan of the Turks, in 1604 and negotiated by François Savary de Breves, resident of Istanbul and French ambassador for about 22...

Mission scientifique au Caucase études archéologiques & historiques/ par J. de Morgan.

Morgan, J. de (Jacques)

...Publication based on the findings of the author's journey to the Caucasus undertaken under the auspices of the "Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux arts" of France with the purpose of archaeological exploration. Comprises 2...

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...

Consequencias do fenomeno, que appareceu em sinco de agosto do anno prezente sobre Constantinopla, relacaõ / que escreveu Jacome Fernandes em arabigo, e a tradusio no idioma lusitano Manoel Alveres do Couto.

Jacome Fernandes

...The work relates strange happenings the previous year in Constantinople...

Undecima relaçam historica, pertencente ao estado, sucessos, & progressos da Liga Sagrada contra Turcos, Anno de 1688 : publicada nesta Corte a 5. de Outubro, Novas esperanças da campanha dos Polacos, & Moscovitas, Sucesso prospero dos Imperiaes com o presidio do Graõ Varadin, Queixas graciosas dos Turcos de Canisa contra os Imperiaes, que lhe queimavaõ as fearas, Feito heroico do Conde de Hofkirch sobre o rio Savo, Navegaçaõ provavel do Seren, Dux de Veneza ao ataque de Negroponte, de que se espera confimaçaõ.

[Unknown]

...One of eighteen pamphlet newsletters concerning the conflict between the Holy League and the Turks. First and only edition of this complete, and very rare, set of newsletters detailing two years of conflict between the Holy Roman Empire...