22. Henry Marsh, A New Survey of the Turkish Empire and Government, in a Brief History deduced to this present Time, and the Reign of the now Grand Seignior Mahomet the IV… As also an Account of the Siege of Newhausel (London, 1663).

The deals with the reign of Mehmed IV, the Ottoman Sultan between 1648 and 1687. Turkish politics and culture were of great interest to Europeans as Ottoman forces expanded into the Balkans during the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Turks seemed to be unstoppable until they were defeated in front of Vienna in 1683.

This copy of A New Survey was purchased in November 1934 to replace one missing from the library since 1767.

A surprising number of books about Turkey and the Ottomans went missing from Marsh’s Library, including all eight volumes of a racy work of fiction entitled Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy (1694).