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Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1580. . Second edition in Italian, expanded with 7 additional plates; folio (30.5 x 21 cm); text in Italian, 67 full-page engraved illustrations, minor offsetting, woodcut device to title, initials and headpieces, gilt bookplate and old bookseller's label to front pastedown, old library stamp to rear pastedown, endpapers watermarked with lily in circle, title watermaked with angel in circle below star, final blank f. present; old vellum, MS title to spine in pen, edges stained red, remains of silk ties, covers a little yellowed, minor worming top top-margin of first few ff., otherwise internally clean; [24], 192, [2]pp. The best, expanded edition in Italian of Nicolas de Nicolay's (1517-1583) Quatre premiers livres des navigations, the first comprehensive survey of the costumes and customs of the Ottoman Empire. Artist, geographer and spy, Nicolay (1517-1583) was sent by the French king Henri II to Constantinople in 1551 to join d'Aramont's embassy at the court of the… Read More

Venice: Francesco Ziletti. , 1580.. A near fine example. Plates and text are clean and crisp; some pages with minor edgewear and occasional expert restorations.. Edition: Second and best expanded Italian edition. , Binding: Contemporary vellum, expertly rebacked saving the original spine., Notes: Nicolas de Nicolay (1517–1583) was a French geographer. He travelled around Germany, Denmark, England, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Greece, and Turkey and served in the armies of most of these countries. On his return to France, Henry II made him Geographer Ordinary and Valet to the Chamber.Published in 1567, Quatre premiers livres des navigations (Travels in Turkey) recorded Nicolay's observations about the Ottoman court and peoples from his 1551 mission to Istanbul on behalf of the French government. The book served as the first comprehensive survey of customs and costumes in the Ottoman world. Travels in Turkey achieved a high level of commercial success upon its release. It was later reissued and translated… Read More

Antwerp, Guillaume Silvius, 1576.
Small 4to [200 x 143 mm]: (8) ll., 325 pp. (some mistakes in the pagination), (15) ll., 60 full-page plates of costumes. Bound in full contemporary overlapping vellum, flat spine with the handwritten title. Contemporary binding.
First edition in Italian, translated from the French edition published at the same date and by the same printer.
Atabey 871; Colas 2203 (second issue); Göllner 1663; cf. Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 319 (1580 edition); not in Blackmer.
The woodcuts are reduced copies, by Antonij van Leest, of the engraved plates of the first edition (printed in Paris in 1567). The second Italian edition, printed at Venice in 1580, contains engraved copies of the original plates, together with seven additional plates.
After having described the customs of Algiers, Tripoli, the Barbary States and Scio where he landed when he was going to Constantinople, Nicolay (1517-1583), a traveler from the Dauphiné, insists on what concerns the Turks, the Greeks and the… Read More

Venetia, Stamperia de Giunti. 1563, 1559, (1558 au colophon) & 1606.3 folio volumes [335 x 223 mm] p. d. t. on the spine, [4], 34 ll., 3 double-page maps, (num. 394) ; [2], 28 ll. 156 ll. ; [6], 36 ll. 430 ll. 7 double-page maps [396] ; leaves 108 and 109 of the first volume calligraphed in the eighteenth century replace the original missing leaves. Full ivory vellum, spine ribbed, title page in full gold lettering, edges blued. Antique binding circa 1740.First edition of volume II, third enlarged edition of volumes I and III, rare in uniform antique binding. Ramusio's Viaggi are always or almost always composed of volumes of different editions.Thus the copy offered in catalog 180 of one of the major international bookstores published on June 18, 2019 at a price of $95,000 was described as follows: " First editions of volumes II and III, third edition of volume I.Folio. Three volumes. 3 folding plates in volume I, 7 double-page maps in vol. III, numerous woodcut illustrations, maps, and… Read More

Venice, Appresso i Giunti, 1613, 1606, 1606. . Sixth edition of vol. I, fourth edition of vol. II, third edition of vol. III. 3 vols, small folio (312 by 218mm approx.) Woodcut devices to title-pages, 10 double-page maps and plans, 8 full-page woodcut plates, with further illustrations in the text. Contemporary Italian (Venetian?) morocco, boards & spines ruled & stamped in gilt; paper repairs to title-page of vol. I, and outer margin of following two leaves, occasional dampstaining to vol. I, minor worming to first and last leaves and pastedowns of vols. II and III. A handsome set in a contemporary Italian binding. 'One of the earliest and most important collections of Voyages and Travels of the sixteenth centuryÂ…' (Church). Undoubtedly a foundation work for any collection of Voyages and Travels.The 'most perfect work of that nature in any language whatsoever' (John Locke). Ramusio (1485-1557) served as Secretary to the Venetian Senate, and on retiring to Padua compiled this collection of… Read More