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Manuzio, Antonio, editor. Viaggi fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Costantinopoli: con la descrittione particolare di città, luoghi, siti, costumi, et della porta del gran Turco: et di tutte le intrate, spese, et modo di gouerno suo, et della ultima impresa contra Portoghesi. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1543 First edition. A compilation of Venetian accounts of voyages to Eastern Europe and the Near East, an unusual production among the publications of the house of Aldo. The editor was the brother of Paolo Manuzio. It includes reports of two voyages by Giosafat Barbaro, to Persia and to Tuna (now called Don); Ambrogio Contarini's embassy to Uzun-Hassan (first published in Venice in 1487), Luigi di Giovanni's voyages to Calcutta, and accounts by Benedetto Ramberti and of Suleiman Baffa's retaking of Diu in India from the Portuguese in 1538. 8vo (155 x 98 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-Y8 Z4 (Y1 unsigned): 180 leaves, foliated. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Minor marginal loss repaired.) binding: Nineteenth-century brown russia (162 x 111 mm), broad blind floral border, inner compartment of single gilt fillet and inner border of repeated blind palmette, spine with semi-raised bands in six compartments, second and fourth gilt- lettered, others with repeat motif in bling and gilt. (Rubbing to extremities with loss, joints strengthened.) provenance: Richard Robert Madden (1798-1886), armorial ex libris — John F. Jones, Catalogue of the library of Dr. R. Madden, Dublin, 20-22 November 1865, lot 1408 — Sir William G. Ellison-Macartney (1852-1924), armorial ex libris. acquisition: Purchased from Rosenkilde og Bagger, Copenhagen, 1967. references: UCLA 317; Renouard 128/8; Edit16 26947; USTC 803061