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Fontaine, Jacques.
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
- De bello Rhodio, libri tres. Rome: F. Minuzio Calvo, February 1524
first edition, folio (290 x 204mm.), title within woodcut border, modern vellum with Maltese cross on both covers, ties, red morocco fitted box, gilt and white morocco inlaid cross on upper cover
Provenance
Bibliotheca Hierosolymitana of M. Chaulet of the order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, book label; Sefik E. Atabey, book label
Literature
Blackmer 613; Göllner 224; Atabey 444
Catalogue Note
An eye-witness account of the siege and capitulation of Rhodes, and a book which in various editions and translations circulated throughout Europe.