RERUM a CAROLO V. Caesare Augusto in Africa Bello gestarum commentarij, Elegantissimis Iconibus ad Historiam accommodis illustrati. Authorum elenchum, e quorum Monumentis hoc opus constat, sequens pagella indicabit
PlacePub
Antwerp
Publisher
Bellerum 1st first edition
Date
1554
Illustrations
Folding maps (3 - one district map, city of Algiers, city of Aphrodisium) + woodcut sailing ship with Hermes(?) & goddess on board.
Description
Octavo early 19th century speckled calf spined boards with vellum tips and black spine label, gilt bands to spine (tips sl rubbed) TP+7 leaves +183 leaves + (8 leaves of index, errata & colophon) + final blank. TP laid down to strengthen small (erased?) thin patch. Name to bottom margin. Back of TP has a neat old contents list in sl.faded MS ink. Some uniform paper tanning and three or four pages with more foxing. 8 pages have a few lines neatly underlined and 5 prelims have pale water spotting mostly confined to the margin. *This history of Karl the Fifth in his war against Tunis and the Barbary states of north Africa. The three maps show shipping, town walls & gates, gun emplacements as well as a floating platform with cannons. One larger scale map shows people and houses in the walled city. Rare, only one copy in auction records back in 1983 (BM STC, Dutch Books 183).
Booknumber
V66739
Price
Price: GBP 850.00 or USD 1258.00
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