CLAES BRORSOM RALAMB: Kort beskriffning om thet wid then Constantinopolitaniske resan ar foreluppit. Stockholm 1679 together at head: Ralamb: Observationes Juris Practicae. Stocholm 1679 First edition both works,in large 8vo contemporary full leather with some light wear, text clean as published,complete both works,overall in very good condition. Claes Ralamb (1622-1698) a Swedish diplomat led an embassy to the Sublime Porte in 1657-58.He even acquired, in Constantinople, a fine manuscript album of Levantine costumes (now in Swedish Royal Library).He kept a detailed daily calendar of his travel to Constantinople,his stay there and his return.His travel was from early 1657 to April 1658 .It is an invaluable source of information, as he describes in meticulous details all the ceremonies of the Ottoman Palace in the peak of the Ottoman power,the state administration,the protocol,the life in Constantinople and its mix society. His observations on Ottoman and Greek clothing and social structure were so precise that they remain a primary source for the study of 17th-century costumes. Ralamb was educated,and as a diplomat and a representative of a friendly for the Ottomans country,he was quite free to travel around and evaluate what he saw, a rare Swedish perspective on the Ottoman Empire during the mid-17th century.Atabey 1010,not in Blackmer. Second work is a detailed presentation of the Swedish judicial system of the time and observations on that. Rare 17th century accounts