Febure Michel [Giustiniano di Tours]: Etats present de la Turquie ou il est traite des vies,moeurs et coutumes des ottomans et des autres peoples de leur Empire, divise par 14 nations qui l habitent,sept infidels et sept Chretiens. Paris 1675. First and only edition in French of the Specchio overo descrittione de la Turchia, published previous year ( 1674), in Firenze.It is a completely other work than others published later under the same pseudonym of Febure.Small in 8vo,contemporary full leather,slightly rubbed and restored at the edges,complete 450p.,title with light foxing,text: very few scattered spotting in some pages,generally clean and bright,a very good copy for its age. Giustiniano lived in the Levant in mid 17th century and provided a very accurate account for the life in the Ottoman Empire at the peak of its power.Several parts are from eyewitness travel accounts,as a visit to Cyprus (chapters 19 and 23),in other Greek islands or the pilgrimage to Mecca. Another chapter is devoted to the Greeks under Ottoman rule. The book contain unique information for the Levant,as a lengthy chapter for the way of travelling in the Ottoman lands and description of everyday life and ceremonies of a multinational society. Atabey 420,not in Blackmer