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RAMBERTI (BENEDETTO) Libri tre delle cose de Turchi. Nel primo si descriue il viaggio da Venetia à Costantinopoli, con gli nomi de luoghi antichi & moderni, FIRST EDITION, [Venice, Paul Manutius, 1539]
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Libri tre delle cose de Turchi. Nel primo si descriue il viaggio da Venetia à Costantinopoli, con gli nomi de luoghi antichi & moderni, FIRST EDITION, with 2 final blank leaves (Ev & vi), Aldine dolphin and anchor device on title and final leaf, guide letters in initial spaces, early twentieth century green morocco gilt, covers with 2-line gilt fillet border enclosing gilt-blocked Aldine device, spine gilt tooled in six compartments within raised bands, g.e., uneven fading to sides but a very good copy [Adams T1136, listed under Turkey; Ahmanson-Murphy 285; Renouard 117.1, "très rare et presque inconnue"; not in Atabey or Blackmer], 8vo, [Venice, Paul Manutius, 1539]
Footnotes
RARE FIRST EDITION, with no copies recorded by Rare Book Hub since 1934. The author travelled to the Ottoman Empire in 1534 with the Venetian ambassador Daniello Ludovici, and his account "contains a valuable account of the Ottoman court, especially in the second book, which describes the financial structure of the Ottoman Empire" (Atabey). A second edition appeared in 1541, and it was translated into English in 1542.
Provenance: Leo S. Olschki, book plate, with pencil inventory no. 43667.





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