[MÉHÉMET II.] / MONTERZI, BELIN DE (Translator):

Lettres turques, historiques et politiques, ecrites tant par Méhémet II, Empereur Ottoman, que par ses Généraux, ses Sultanes, un de ses Ambassadeurs, & Usum-Cassan, Roi de Perse, son Contemporain. Traduites du grec & de l'arabe sur des manuscrits trouvés à Constantinople; avec des notes intéressantes, & une histoire de la vie de ce conquérant. Two parts in one volume. Paris 1764.

      12mo. Pp. xii, 144; (ii), 155, (1). Half title to second part missing. Later half cloth, title lettered on spine. The brilliant conquests of Sultan Mehmed II became a dominant theme in European politics. As early as 1472 a collection of fictitious letters were printed, showing the flattering words interchanged between the rulers of Europe and the Great Turk (see Smitskamp PO 36a). Also published with the title "Histoire de Mehemet II". See Barbier ii,1306. Not in Atabey.