first Italian edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece of Father Nile with a crocodile and a unicorn, folding engraved map of the sources of the Nile, contemporary ink signature to foot of frontispiece, small library ink stamp to lower corner of title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, engraved armorial bookplate of Bibliotheca Riccardi de Vernaccia, contemporary limp vellum, stain to upper cover, [Blackmer 1022 (English edition)], 8vo, Florence, Piero Matini, 1693. *** The scarce first Italian edition of one of the earliest sources on Ethiopia and the Nile.
first Italian edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece of Father Nile with a crocodile and a unicorn, folding engraved map of the sources of the Nile, contemporary ink signature to foot of frontispiece, small library ink stamp to lower corner of title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, engraved armorial bookplate of Bibliotheca Riccardi de Vernaccia, contemporary limp vellum, stain to upper cover, [Blackmer 1022 (English edition)], 8vo, Florence, Piero Matini, 1693. *** The scarce first Italian edition of one of the earliest sources on Ethiopia and the Nile.
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