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Nicolay, Nicholas. Les navigations, peregrinations et voyages, faicts en la Turquie... Antwerp: Guillaume Silvius, 1577. 19th century gray cloth (probably bound for De Vinne, see below), leather spine label, mottled endpapers. 7 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches (14 x 20 cm); [24], 308, [26] pp., including 59 (of 60) plates, wood engravings of costume within typographical borders. Light binding wear, lacking leaves P4-5 (one of which is a plate), i.e. Chapter XVI, some plates with old graphite or sanguine on the verso for the purpose of transferring the design. With the bookplate of Theodore Low DeVinne (the great printer, one of the seven founders of the Grolier Club), and The Explorers Club. Sold with all faults. Adams N-254; Colas II 2203. C The Explorers Club Collection