Property from the Loverdos Collection
Nicolas de Nicolay
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”).
LITERATURE:Atabey 872; Colas 2202; this edition not in Blackmer
Property from the Loverdos Collection
Nicolas de Nicolay
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”).
LITERATURE:Atabey 872; Colas 2202; this edition not in Blackmer
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