Histoire des grands vizirs Mahomet Coprogli Pacha et Ahcmet Coprogli Pacha ; celle des trois derniers Grands Seigneurs ; de leurs sultanes, & principales favorites ; avec les plus secrettes intrigues du serrai ; et plusieurs autres particularitez des guerres de Dalmatie, Transilvanie, Hongrie, Candie, & Pologne : avec le plan de la bataille de Cotzchin

Second edition, issued with the date of the original, which bears the imprint of Michallet in Paris (cf. Willems 1899. Blackmer 325 (our edition) and 326 (third, 1679). Atabey 222 (third edition).

Illustrated with a frontispiece and, at the end of the volume, a large folding view of the battle of Khotin.

Full polished brown calf, spine with five raised bands, decorated in blind with fillets and panel compartments, gilt rolls to the spine ends, covers framed with triple fillet and blind palmette tools, comb-marbled endpapers, gilt garland frame to the pastedowns, double gilt fillets to the edges, red-speckled edges, gilt garland frame to the pastedowns, 19th-century binding.

Some rubbing to the spine and to the left margin of the upper cover.

This account is here complete in a single volume.

It focuses both on the political action of two members of the Köprülü family who held the grand vizierate (Mehmed Pasha, from 1656 to 1661; Ahmed Pasha, from 1661 to 1676), under Mehmed IV, and on the defeat inflicted on the Ottoman armies by John Sobieski at the battle of Khotin (Moldavia, 11 November 1673).

Provenance: from the library of G. Lenfant, with his label pasted at the head of a flyleaf as an ex-libris.