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Discours et histoire veritable des navigations. Antwerp, 1586

Lot 157
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Lot 157 | Discours et histoire veritable des navigations. Antwerp, 1586
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
Discours et histoire veritable des navigations, peregrinations et voyages. Antwerp: Arnould Cononx, 1586

4to (215 xz 158mm.), title with woodcut printer’s device, numerous woodcut illustrations, seventeenth-century mottled calf, one or two marginal flaws, binding sound but with some wear and some delamination caused by the mottling process

This is the third French edition of Nicolay’s famous work, the first serious introduction to Turkish costume. This edition includes one further illustration than those preceding (“Delly à pied”).
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