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Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 233, [1]; very good, sound and clean copy in a rubbed and price-clipped dust jacket. Originally published in English in 8 volumes in 1691-94. "Giovanni P. Marana, author of the letters in this volume, was an Italian living in France in the seventeenth century. He wrote in the character of a Turk visiting Paris, and these fictional letters back to his friends describe what he saw and did. Marana was probably the first writer to use the device of a series of letters written by a visitor to a foreign country in order to comment satirically on contemporary politics, culture, religion, manners and philosophy" (jacket blurb).…