Chalcondylas, Laonicos.

6 parts in 2 volumes, folio (356 x 220mm.), engraved title-pages, folding plate and illustrations, woodcut double-page illustration, modern calf, [cf. Atabey 214; not in Blackmer], lacking B4, I2, K3-4, M1 of vol.2, D4 of vol.2 torn with loss of lower half of image and text on verso, L4 of vol.2 probably from a different edition, Q2 and 3 of vol.2 cut out and mounted (probably from a different copy), some plates censored (infilled), worming to inner margin of later pages of vol.1, small tears to preliminary leaves of both vol. with slight loss affecting a few letters and a tiny portion of the engraved frontispieces, small marginal tears (repaired), some marginal staining, map stained and strengthened at folds on verso

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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