L'espion dans les cours des princes chretiens, ou Lettres et memoires d'un envoyé secret de la porte dans les cours de l'Europe
Subtitle: où l'on voit les découvertes qu'il a faites dans toutes les cours où il s'est trouvé
By: avec une dissertation curieuse de leurs forces, politique & religion. Par ***
Contributors: Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner
Edition: Nouv. ed. augm. dans le corps de l'ouvrage, enrichie de figures en taille-douce, & divisée en VI. volumes.
Publisher: Chez Erasme Kinkius
Published: 1739
Place of publication: A Cologne
Language: fre
Subjects: History
Notes: University of Illinois Library bookplate "From the library of Conte Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana Lazelada di Bereguardo, purchased 1921" on the inside front cover.

The first edition of this work began publication in 1684, when a volume in Italian entitled "L'esploratore turco" and a French version entitled "L'espion du grand seigneur" were published in Paris by C. Barbin. Authorship is disputed, but it is generally agreed that the first fifty letters (the original four volumes) were written by Marana. Barbier, on the authority of La Monnoye, ascribes two volumes which appeared in 1696 under title, "Suite de L'espion turc", to C. Cotolendi. Cf. Barbier. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, v. 2, col. 176-178.