7 beautiful volumes in 12. In Amsterdam 1756: "The Spy in the Courts of Christian Princes", where Memoirs to serve the History of this Century

A beautiful set of 7/9 volumes in full speckled calfskin, ribbed spine decorated with gilded titles and red and ocher morocco volume numbers, marbled red edge endpapers. In good condition / “The Spy in the Courts of the Christian Princes”; where Memoirs to serve the History of this century since 1637.; until 1697. New Edition revised, corrected, continued & augmented with a table of contents In Amsterdam 1756. This edition was successively increased and 1684 is given for the date of originae. "The Turkish Spy of Marana" the first work whose epistolary form will have prestigious followers, of which Montesquieu with the "Lettres Persanes" is undoubtedly the most illustrious, but we could also cite Boyer d'Argens and his "Lettres Juives" ", Chinese Letters... A very beautiful copy, 7 volumes out of the 9 published, missing volumes 6 and 8.  Giovanni Paolo Marana. Not much is known about Marana. It seems that he was a Genoese nobleman living in France after having participated in 1672 in a failed conspiracy intended to bring the city of Savona under the domination of the Dukes of Savoy, he published the Turkish Spy in 1684, which was immediately known many reissues. In this tasty chronicle by letters, Marana discovers and judges by an Oriental of his time (a Turk foreign to European customs) the history and customs of Europe, and more particularly of France of his time, but also of England, Germany, in the colonies, in Africa.... And even in the sciences (it is particularly a question of the world of Descartes), shows and Belles-Lettres, and the great characters of the time. ......

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