18th century trade agreement with the Ottoman Empire
Passarovitzer Handlungs und Schiffarth's Traktat zwischen Kaiser Karl dem Sechsten und Sultan Achmet dem Dritten vom J. 1718. / Tractatus Commercii et Navigationis inter Carolum Sextum ab una et Ahmed Han ab altera parte, die 27 Julii anno 1718 initus & signatus prope Passarovizium.
[Probably Austria, ca. 1800?].
4to (200 x 240 mm). Latin manuscript on watermarked laid paper. (14) written pp. Contemporary paper wrappers with handwritten cover title.
€ 250.00
A somewhat later manuscript copy, prepared in the late 18th or early 19th century, of the commercial agreement concluded between the Habsburg and the Ottoman Empire on 27 July 1718 in the aftermath of the Treaty of Passarowitz, which ended the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1714-18. The trade agreement provided Turkish subjects with substantial freedom of trade throughout the Habsburg countries.
Provenance
From a Hungarian private collection.
Condition
Wrapper stained and torn at the outer edge; interior very well preserved.










