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A07604 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.; Epistolae magni Turci. English Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481.; Laudivio, de Vezzano. 1607 (1607) STC 17996; ESTC S112757 26,146 48

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