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• مسودة كتاب روضة الغزا (1663), by fl. 1663 Katip Mustafa Zühtü and Sultan of the Turks Abdülhamid II (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the state of the present war in Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Moravia, and Silesia between Leopold Emperour of Germany, and Mahamet the fourth Sultan of the Turks, in conjunction with Count Teckely and the Hungarian rebels. Giving an exact account of all the remarkable transactions from the beginning of the war, as sieges, battles, cessations, truces, treaties, denunciation of war, skirmishes, and other hostilities, to this time; but more particularly of the siege of Vienna, and the last great battle, &c. To which is added, a relation of the miseries the Christian captives undergo in Turky. All faithfully related according to the best and most authentick advice. By J. S. gent. (London : printed for William Whitwood, next to the George Inn in Little-Britain, 1683), by fl. 1680-1702 J. S. (John Shirley) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true account of the heroick actions and enterprises of the confederate princes against the Turks and Hungarian rebels, during the last glorious campaign but more particularly the siege and taking of Newheusel. Together with the defeat of the Turkish army near Gran. To which is added the flight and seizure of the grand rebel, Count Teckely, by the Turks; and the manner of his treatment. Licensed Novemb. 19. 1685. Ro. L'Estrange. (London : printed for William Thackery in Duck-lane, Thomas Passinger on London-Bridge, and Tho. Sawbridge in Little-Britain, 1686), by fl. 1680-1702 J. S. (John Shirley) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Great Turks declaration of war against the Emperour of Germany, at his pallace at Adrinople, February 20. 1683. Mahomet son of emperours, son to the famous and glorious God, Emperour of the Turks, King of Græcia, Macedonia, Samaria, and the Holy-land, King of Great and Lesser Egypt, King of all the inhabitants of the earth, & of the Earthly Paradise, Obedient prince and son of Mahomet, Preserver of the towns of Hungaria, Possessour of the Sepulcher of your God, Lord of all the Emperours of the world, from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, King of all Kings, Lord of the tree of life, conquerour of Melonjen, Itegly, and the city Prolenix, Great Pursuer of the Christians, joy of the flourishing world, commander and guardian of the crucified God, Lord of the multitude of heathens. ([Edinburgh? : s.n., 1683]), by Sultan of the Turks Mehmed IV (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The history of the Turks Beginning with the year 1679. Being a full relation of the last troubles in Hungary, with the sieges of Vienna, and Buda, and all the several battles both by sea and land, between the Christians, and the Turks, until the end of the year 1698, and 1699. In which the peace between the Turks, and the confederate Christian princes and states, was happily concluded at Carlowitz in Hungary, by the mediation of His Majesty of Great Britain, and the States General of the United Provinces. With the effigies of the emperors and others of note, engraven at large upon copper, which completes the sixth and last edition of the Turks. In two vol. in folio. By Sir Paul Rycaut, kt. eighteen years consul at Smyrna, now his Majesty's resident at Hamburg, and fellow of the Royal Society. (London : printed for Robert Clavell, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Abel Roper against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, MDCC. [1700]), by Paul Rycaut and Robert White (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second part of the new survey of the Turkish empire, containing I. The extent of its dominion, when, how and by whom conquered. II. An account of the Tartars. III. The life of Mahomet the Imposter. IV. Their militia. V. Their government civil and ecclesiastick. VI. The continuation of their history. Being now and absolute and compleat discovery of what is worth knowledge, or is any way satisfactory to curiosity, in that mighty nation. (London : Printed by J. Best for Henry Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery Lane, 1664), by Henry Marsh and John Chantry (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The History of the Grand Visiers, Mahomet and Achmet Coprogli, of the Three Last Grand Signiors, Their Sultana's and Chief Favourites; With the Most Secret Intrigues of the Seraglio, Besides Several Other Particulars of the Wars of Dalmatia, Transylvania, Hungary, Candia, and Poland (London: Printed for H. Brome, 1677), by François de Chassepol, trans. by John Evelyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentaires sur les Mémoires de Montecuculi (Lacombe, 1769), by Lancelot Turpin de Crissé and Raimondo Montecuccoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Köprülüler (Kitaphane-yi Askerî, 1915), by 1880 or 1881-1937 Ahmet Refik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur. Divisés en trois livres. I. De l'art militaire en genéral. II. De la guerre contre le Ture. III. Relation de la campagne de 1664. (Gissey, 1760), by Raimondo Montecuccoli and Jacques Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Besondere und geheime kriegs-nachrichten des fúrsten Raymvndi Montecuculi, róm. kays. maj. generalissimi, worinnen die anfangsgrúnde der kriegs-kunst sehr deutlich beschrieben sind. Von dem eigenhåndigen manuscript des autoris aus der Kayserlichen bibliothee in das teutsche übersetzet ... (Verlegt in dem Weidmannischen buchladen, 1736), by Raimondo Montecuccoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tarih-i Raşit. (Matbaa-yi Âmire, 1865), by Raşit Efendi and 1685-1759 or 1760 Asım Efendi Küçükçelebizade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere (Tip. economica, 1852), by Raimondo Montecuccoli, Giuseppe Grassi, and Ugo Foscolo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere di Raim. Montecuccoli (Per Giovanni Silvestri, 1831), by Raimondo Montecuccoli and Giuseppe Grassi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de le̓mpereur. (Chez Wetstein, Libraire., 1746), by Raimondo Montecuccoli and Jacques Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie del general principe di Montecuccoli che rinfermano una esatta instruzzione de i generali ed ufficiali di guerra, per ben commander un' armata, assediare e diffendere città, fortezze ... e particolarmente le massime politiche, militari e stratagemi da lui pratticati, nelle guerre d'Ungheria, d'Italia, e contro li Suedesi in Germania ... (Compagnia de i librari, 1704), by Raimondo Montecuccoli and Hendrik van Huyssen (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the Turks wars with Poland, Muscovy and Hungary ... (Printed, and sold by J. King, 1711), by de La Croix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Destur ül-amel li-ıslah ül halel. ([s.n.], 1864), by Kâtip Çelebi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur. Divisés en trois livres, I. De l'art militaire in general. II. De la guerre contre le Turc. III. Relation de la campagne de 1664. (Arkstée & Merkus, 1756), by Raimondo Montecuccoli and Jacques Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des grands vizirs Mahomet Coproglipacha et Ahcmet Coprogli Pacha : celle des trois derniers grands seigneurs, de leurs sultanes, & principales favorites, avec les plus secrettes intrigues du Serrail : et plusieurs autres particularitez des guerres de Dalmatie, Transilvanie, Hongrie, Candie, & Pologne : avec le plan de la bataille de Cotzchin. (Chez Estienne Michallet, 1676), by François de Chassepol and Estienne Michallet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires de Montecuculi, généralissime des armées, et grand-maître de l'artillerie de l'empereur (Arkstée & Merkus, 1770), by Raimondo Montecuccoli and Lancelot Turpin di Crissé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Köprülüler : Köprülüzade Ahmet Paşa, hayat ve tabaii, Avusturya seferi, Girit seferi, Kandiye muzafferiyeti zamanında İstanbul ve Edirne hayatı, ulûm ve edebiyat, siyaset-i hariciyesi, Lehistan seferi, hatime-yi hayatı (Kitaphane-yi Askerı̂, 1915), by 1880 or 1881-1937 Ahmet Refik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Köprülüler : Köprülü Mehmet Paşa, hayat ve tıbaʻı, dinı̂ siyaseti, Köprülü ve ulema, zamanında ulûm ve edebiyat, Anadolu ıslahatı, Erdel muvaffakıyatı, siyaset-i hariciyesi, Köprülü'nün son günleri (Kitaphane-yi Askerı̂, 1915), by 1880 or 1881-1937 Ahmet Refik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tarih-i Naima. (İbrahim Müteferrika, 1734), by Mustafa Naima and 1674?-1745 İbrahim Müteferrika (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dilucidation of the late commotions of Turkey containing an exact and distinct account of all causes and motives of the deposing of Mahomet, and of the advancing of Soliman to the imperial throne of Constantinople, gather'd from the letters of a person dwelling in, and minutely inform'd of the affairs of that city, and consecrated to the ever august merit of the most serene elector of Bavaria / printed in Italian at Venice, and translated into English by the author of the Monthly Account; to be annex'd to numb. 10 of the Monthly Account. (London : Printed by J.B. and publish'd by Randal Taylor, 1689), by John Phillips (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Athènes ancienne et nouvelle et l'estat présent de l'empire des Turcs. English (London : Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman ..., 1676), by Georges Guillet de Saint-Georges (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Histoire des grands vizirs Mahomet Caprogli-pacha et Achmet Caprogli-pacha. English (London : Printed for H. Brome ..., 1677), by François de Chassepol and John Evelyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new letter concerning the Jevves written by the French ambassador, at Constantinople, to his brother the French resident at Venice ; being a true relation of the proceedings of the Israelites, the wonderful miracles wrought by their prophet, with the terrible judgments that have fallen upon the Turks. (London : Printed by A. Maxwell for Robert Boulter ..., 1666), by Alexandre Chaumont (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Letter from an eminent merchant in Constantinople to a friend in London giving an exact relation of the great and glorious cavalcade of Sultan Mahomet the fourth, present emperour of the Turks, as he marched out of Constantinople, for the invasion of Christendome, and the siege of Vienna. (London : Printed for A. Jones, in the year, 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Generall Historie of the Turkes, From the First Beginning of That Nation to the Rising of the Othoman Familie: With All the Notable Expeditions of the Christian Princes Against Them; Together With the Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours Faithfullie Collected out of the Best Histories, Both Auntient and Moderne, and Digested Into One Continuat Historie Untill This Present Yeare 1603 (London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1603), by Richard Knolles (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tariḫ-i Nişancı Meḥmet Paşa. (Maṭbaa-yi Âmire, 1873), by Nişancı Mehmed Paşa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ducae Michaelis Ducae Nepotis Historia Byzantina res in imperio Graecorum gestas complectens, a Joanne Palaeologo I ad Mehemetem II ; Accessit Cronicon breve, quo Graecorum, Venetorum, & Turcorum aliquot gesta continentur (Ex Typographia Bartholomaei Javarina, 1729), by ca. 1400-1470 Ducas, Bartolomeo Javarina, Ismael Boulliau, and Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laonikou Chalkokondylou Athenaiou apodeixis historion deka = Laonici Chalcocondylae Atheniensis historiarum libri decem (Ex Typographia Bartholomaei Javarina, 1729), by Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Bartolomeo Javarina, Charles Annibal Fabrot, Johannes Leunclavius, Konrad Clauser, and Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tarih-i Naima : ravzat ül-Hüseyn fī hulasat-i ahbar il-hafıkeyn. (Matbaa-yi Amire, 1864), by Mustafa Naima (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acta Mechmeti I Saracenorum principis natales, vitam, victorias, imperivm et mortem eivs ominosam complectentia ([Frankfurt] : [Theodor de Bry, Johann Israel de Bry], 1597., 1597), by Theodor de Bry and Johann Israel de Bry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sarracenicae historiae libri tres. English (Imprinted at London : By William How, for Abraham Veale, 1575), by Celio Augustino Curione and Thomas Newton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Mahumetane or Turkish historie containing three bookes: 1 Of the originall and beginning of the Turkes, and of the foure empires which are issued and proceded out of the superstitious sect of Mahumet. 2 Of their conquests and the succession of the house of Ottoman, vntill the present reigning of Mahumet the third. 3 Of the warres and seege of Malta, which Solyman the great made to the great maister and brothers of that order. Heerevnto haue I annexed a briefe discourse of the warres of Cypres, at what time Selimus the second, tooke from the Venetians the possession of that iland, and by reason thereof I haue adioyned a finall discourse conteining the causes of the greatnesse of the Turkish Empire. Translated from the French & Italian tongues, by R. Carr, of the middle Temple in London, Gentleman. Dedicated to the three worthy brothers Robert Carr, William Carr and Edward Carr, in the county of Lincolne, Esquires. (At London : Printed by Thomas Este, dwelling in Aldersgate streete, 1600), by Ralph Carr and Uberto Foglietta (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A compendious history of the Turks: containing an exact account of the originall of that people; the rise of the Othoman family; and the valiant undertakings of the Christians against them: with their various events. / By Andrew Moore, Gent. (London : Printed by John Streater, 1660 [i.e. 1659]), by Andrew Moore (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Newes come latle fro[m] Pera of two most mighti armies as wel of foteme[n] as of horsme[n], tra[n]slated out of Italien, to Fre[n]che and so into Engleshe. And first of the great Duke of Moscouia [and] of the Soffy, and y[e] othere of an Hebrewe people neuer spoken of before, fou[n]de not lo[n]g ago comming from y[e] mountaines called Caspii, with a newe inuencio[n] of weapons, with y[e] nomber of y[e] squadrons, and with the names of two earles [and] capitayns. And the cause whi y[e] great Turk hath forbydde[n] wyne, with mani other newes neuer hard of. ([London : W. Copland, 1561]), by Andrea Buonaccorsi (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A letter to the most illustrious Lord, the Count of Hohenlo one of the imperial generals. Written by a gentleman in the army of Count Serini before Canisia. Concerning the renegades amongst the Turks. Put into English by a person of quality. With allowance, June 10. 1664. Roger Le Strange. (London : printed by John Redmayne, 1664), by N.R.D. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A prospect of Hungary, and Transylvania with a catalogue of the kings of the one, and the princes of the other; together with an account of the qualities of the inhabitants, the commodites of the countries, the chiefest cities, towns, and strong-holds, rivers, and mountains. Whereunto is added an historical narrative of the bloody wars amongst themselves, and with the Turks; continued to this present year 1664. As also a brief description of Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Steirmark, Croatia, Dalmatia, Moravia, Silesia, Carinthia, Carniola, and some other adjacent countries contained in a mapp affixed hereunto: in which mapp all the places that are in the power of the Turk have a crescent, or half moon over them; and those in the possession of the Christians have a cross. (London : Printed for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St Pauls Church-yard, near the little North Door, 1664) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief accompt of the Turks late expedition, against the kingdome of Hungary, Transylvania, and the hereditary countries of the Emperour together with an exact narrative of the remarquable occurrences at the siege of Nevvhausel. Translated out of the Dutch. Printed with privilege. (London : printed by Richard Hodgkinson, and Thomas Mab, MDCLXIII. [1663]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second part of the new survey of the Turkish empire, containing I. The extent of its dominion, when, how and by whom conquered. II. An account of the Tartars. III. The life of Mahomet the Imposter. IV. Their militia. V. Their government civil and ecclesiastick. VI. The continuation of their history. Being now and absolute and compleat discovery of what is worth knowledge, or is any way satisfactory to curiosity, in that mighty nation. (London : Printed by J. Best for Henry Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery Lane, 1664), by Henry Marsh and John Chantry (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The bloody siege of Vienna a song. Wherein the Turks have lost one hundred and sixty thousand men; being the greatest victory that ever was obtained over the Turks, since the foundation of the Ottoman Empire. Written by an English gentleman volunteer, that was at the garrison during the seige. (London : printed for J. Dean, bookseller in Cranborn-street, in Leicester-Fields, near Newport-House, [1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true and exact relation of the taking of Newhassell by storm. Together with the defeat of the Serasquier Bassa before Grann, by the Duke of Lorrain, as it was brought from Vienna by the Sieur Martell to the governour of the Spanish Netherlands. (Edinburgh : Re-printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to his most sacred Majesty, anno Dom. 1685) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Predictions of the sudden and total destruction of the Turkish empire, and religion of Mahomet according to the opinions of the Lord Tycho Brahe of Denmark, and many others of the best astronomers of this later age; collected and humbly dedicated to all Christendom by a lover of Christianity. ([London : printed; and sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner, 1684]), by Lover of Christianity (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• History of the holy war (London : printed for Tho. Malthus, at the Sun in the Poultrey, 1685), by Thomas Mills (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Great Turks declaration of war against the Emperour of Germany, at his pallace at Adrinople, February 20. 1683. Mahomet son of emperours, son to the famous and glorious God, Emperour of the Turks, King of Græcia, Macedonia, Samaria, and the Holy-land, King of Great and Lesser Egypt, King of all the inhabitants of the earth, & of the Earthly Paradise, Obedient prince and son of Mahomet, Preserver of the towns of Hungaria, Possessour of the Sepulcher of your God, Lord of all the Emperours of the world, from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, King of all Kings, Lord of the tree of life, conquerour of Melonjen, Itegly, and the city Prolenix, Great Pursuer of the Christians, joy of the flourishing world, commander and guardian of the crucified God, Lord of the multitude of heathens. ([Edinburgh? : s.n., 1683]), by Sultan of the Turks Mehmed IV (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A panegyrick mercury upon the successes against the Turks in the Autumn, 1683. ([London? : s.n., 1683]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A particular relation of the raising of the siege of Vienna, and the defeat of the Turkish army on the 12th of September, 1683. (Edinburgh : Re-printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to his most Excellent Majesty, 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief relation of the siege of Vienna, and the victory of the Christians against the Turks at Barkan ([London : s.n., 1683]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great news from the Polish camp and the terms upon which his Most Christian Majesty proffers to make a peace with the Republique of Genoa. From the Polish camp at Soochin, the 2d. of October. 1684. ([London : printed by E. Mallet, in Black-Horse-Alley near Fleet-Bridge, 1684]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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