Author: (L Clerk, John)
Title: Memoirs of Emeric Count Teckely. In Four Books. Wherein Are Related All the Most Considerable Transactions in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire from His Birth Anno 1656 Till After the Battle of Salankement in the Year 1691.
Description: Printed for Tim. Goodwin, 1793. Hardcover. Translated out of French. 12mo. Bound in original full sheep (slightly rubbed). Spine with raised bands. (xii 176 84 68 16p - index). Title page in red and black within a double-line border. With initial imprimatur leaf - Edmund GBohun Jan 13th 1693. With frontis. portrait (plate) of Imre Thököly signed: P. Bouche scul:. 1st English translation published the same year as the French edition. Apparently the most detailed contemporary biography of Imre Teckely (Tokoly). All original with few initials and number on front pastedown. Little worming at top of prelims. The leather boards are poor with peeling alongside spine and loss of most of the spine. Prelims held by strong cords. There is a small rust mark o pages21-24 and a tear across a lower edge on page 77/78 but without loss of text. Complete in need of a new spine. See scans and email for more. . Good

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