PAUL RYCAUT: HISTOIRE DE L EMPIRE OTTOMAN… TOUT CE QUI S EST PASSE DE CONSIDERABLE DANS CET EMPIRE.LA HAYE 1709 First completed edition in French of the last revised version of Rycaut history, published by him in English in 1700, in small octavo, complete in three volumes, contemporary full leather slightly trimmed mostly at edges of spines and corners,spines richly gilt, text clean with some very light spotting in few pages, few pages with uniform light browning mostly in the third volume, engraved additional pictorial titles in each volume, two big folded maps of the Levant (not in Zacharakis), overall in very good condition. Sir Paul Rycaut's work is a cornerstone of Ottoman historiography. According Blackmer, an extremely important and influential work, Rycaut stayed in the Levant for many years and compiled his work on the Ottoman Levant using first hand material. Rycaut continued to revise his work, first published in 1668, throughout his life. He died in 1700, his last revised edition has been published same year in London. The edition published in The Hague in 1709 by Johnson,an English editor established there, is in French to reach an international audience, as English was still a little known language that time.It provides the last full version of Rycaut history a completion up to the very end of 17th century. This edition of Rycaut work is very rare, not present in any major collection worldwide.