Le Nouvel Espion Turc Dans les Cours des Princes Chrétiens, Ou Lettres Et Memoires De divers Envoyés secrets de la Porte dans les Cours de l'Europe: Pour servir de suite & de Supplément A L'Espion

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viii 314 pages, 44 letters. No publisher given, just this "A La Haye : se vend chez Nicolas van Daalen" This is a rare copy of the sequel to "L'Espion Dans Les Cours Des Princes Chrétiens " Worldcat lists only one edition, this 1748 one, and gives Marana as the author. I could find nothing else about it. FAULTS: The front board has lifted, possibly because of shrinking vellum and the sharpness of the print varies throughout the book, but it is always legible; the Content's page and the last page, including the back end paper, are badly tanned ; the the spine is lightly damaged with 2 small holes to the vellum, handwritten on the spine in what I would say matches the period 'L'ESPION TURC'. The front end paper and the following blank page are ragged at the edges, with very minor loss, as well as the tail of the title page. There is also a 20th century annotation : 'G.P. Marana (1687-1694 Letters written by a T spy 424 book digest.' There is irregular and infrequent mild foxing throughout the book, at its worse, which isn't to awful, from page 193 to page 200; pages 51/52 have a very small hole towards the tail with minor loss to the print and pages 251/252 have minor loss to the tail's outer edge, which is well clear of the print. Overall a clean, unmarked and solid copy whose major fault as I see it is the uneveness of the print quality. "Giovanni Paolo Marana or sometimes Jean-Paul Marana (1642 - 1693) was a noble Genoese, who participated in 1672 in an unsuccessful conspiracy for passing the town of Savona under the rule of the Dukes of Savoy, moved to France in 1683.Marana is the author of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, an epistolary novel which judges the history and manners of Europe and especially of France of his time, from an Oriental perspective. This book was published in Italian in 1684 and in French in 1686. The French writer and philosopher Montesquieu also drew on this book in his Persian Letters, an epistolary novel published in 1721 criticizing the existing absolute monarchy in France at his own time (Wikipedia). N° de ref. del artículo 018562

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