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The Turkes secretorie, : conteining his sundrie letters sent to diuers emperours, kings, princes and states, full of proud bragges, and bloody threatnings: with seuerall answers to the same, both pithie and peremptorie. Translated truly out of the Latine copie

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1607.
Call number: 60806
Creator: Mehmed (1432-1481)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
Associated people: Zacchia, Laudivio, (approximately 1435-)
Associated organization: Bridgewater House Library,
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