The Present State of the Ottoman Empire: Sixth Edition, 1686

John Anthony Butler is the author of a number of such edited volumes of seventeenth-century travelers, including John Greaves's Pyramidographia (Cambridge Scholars, 2019), Sir Jerome Horsey's Travels (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), and Sir Thomas Herbert's Travels (ACMRS, 2012). Getty Research Institute; and EEBO itself quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A58003.0001.001?view=toc); third edition (1670, archive.org/details/presentstateofot00ryca/ page/ n4, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto; and catalog.hathitrust. org/Record/100219478, Ohio State); and sixth edition (books. google.com/books/about/The History of the Present State of the.html?id=KKMuTmW98DEC and catalog.hathitrust.org/ Record/001861295, University of Michigan). No doubt there are others, and the press, ACMRS, would be wise in the future to encourage authors to include a section in their printed books about digital resources that can supplement the text. The historiographical target of this edition seems to be Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), with the claim that Rycaut is more strongly connected to the "political reality of diplomats, statesmen and soldiers," than the "realm of the imagination ... of poets, dramatists, and theologians," who had not actually travelled (36).