MARANA Jean Paul, “L Espion du Grand-Seigneur, et ses Relations Secretes envoyees a Constantinople. - Contenant les evenements les plus considerables arrivees pendant la vie de Louis le Grand. Traduit de l Arabe par le Sieur Jean-Paul Marana”, Amsterdam, Henry Wetstein, 1688

12mo, pp. [24], 416, [9]. First printed in Paris 1684. Complete in one Volume. Work of Giovanni Paolo Marana, Italian journalist, long residence in French “first to use the literal device of the ‘foreign observer’ which was developed later by Montesquieu and Goldsmith”. The 6 Volumes additional volumes added to the following editions are not work of Marana, but most probably of the British bookseller W. Bradshaw.

The first page of the table of contents is misbound between pp. 414 and 415, and the third page of the table of contents is bound between the third and the fourth. Fine modern half calf on marbled paper boards. Spine in six compartments with blind-stamped decorations and red leather label. Ink spots on first leaves otherwise fine.

Barbier II 176-177, Blackmer 1072 (First English 1691 edition), Atabey 407 (1710 edition English).